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INFO: What Window Position Values in Some INI Variables Mean

Article ID: 170749

Article Last Modified on 5/1/2001

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q170749

SUMMARY

Some variables in the initialization files require window position values. The meaning of these values are undocumented and, therefore, described in this article.

MORE INFORMATION

You may see some of these variables in your ss.ini file:

   Visual_Merge_Rect
   Position_Toolbar
   Hist_Rect
   Visual_Diff_Rect

   Visual_Merge_Rect (PC) = 139, 172, 876, 654, 1024, 768.
   Hist_Rect (PC) = 233, 206, 766, 542, 1024, 768

The values of the variables, represented in pixels, are translated as follows:

   .ini File Setting = LEFT, TOP, WIDTH, HEIGHT, SCREEN RESOLUTION WIDTH,
   SCREEN RESOLUTION HEIGHT

Reference coordinates are measured from the top-left corner of the computer screen.

REFERENCES

For more information on .ini variables, refer to the User's guide and Online Help. Additionally, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

140316 INFO: All Variable Settings for Visual SourceSafe .INI File

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