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by cyrusroshan 1752 days ago
Hey! Author here: this demo is just the most extreme example I could quickly write to show the power of this library.

Realistically, you won’t need to chain window movement like this in most cases (other than our chatbox, I think none of our windows stay open when their parent window is moved). Fast auto-resizing, on the other hand, is more common, and works great.
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vxNsr 1752 days ago
I'm not the OP but even the demos with the actual software are kinda stuttery. Like the one where you move the outlined spotify window, it's just not great. It's cool that you were able to make it simple to do, and not worry about it, and it's really impressive work, but I guess still feels off a little.
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cyrusroshan 1752 days ago
Ah, I know the one you’re referring to—-that purple window actually isn’t using this library.

We can get the position of our _own_ windows easily, but when it comes to getting Spotify’s position, we need to do some more complex polling, which is slower (and only works when the 3rd-party window is in focus).

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