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Arguments: window-or-screen
Returns the exterior box of window-or-screen. The box is relative to the upper-left corner of the "page" of the parent window, or of the screen if there is no parent window. (A "page" is the logical canvas of a window, on which drawing is done and which is sometimes scrollable. So if the parent window is not scrolled, then the box is relative to the upper-left corner of the parent's interior.) The unit of measurement is pixels.
The screen is the value returned by (screen
*system*)
. See screen and *system*
. This function be used
with setf to modify the
exterior (see track-limits).
To find the exterior without consing a box object,
call nexterior instead. To
find the exterior that the window would have when
its state is
:normal
, call normal-exterior.
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This page has had moderate revisions compared to the 8.1 page.
Created 2016.6.21.
| Allegro CL version 8.2 Moderately revised from 8.1. 8.1 version |