Making C++ Random Generator Flexible for Turbo Vision Desktop Resize?

[shut lichen]

I made a simple Turbo Vision application, based in part on the example in the old Borland manual. Adapting the random number generator, I made it fixed to the size of the desktop.

In modern terminal emulators, the desktop size can change; I can trivially test this even in Windows.

Is there a simple way to adapt this to flexible desktop sizes?

    // In the class
    std::default_random_engine generator;
    std::uniform_int_distribution<int> x_distribution, y_distribution;

    int random_x() { return x_distribution( generator ); }
    int random_y() { return y_distribution( generator ); }


//constructor
TMyApp::TMyApp() :
    TProgInit( &TMyApp::initStatusLine, 
           &TMyApp::initMenuBar, 
           &TMyApp::initDeskTop ),
    x_distribution( 0, size.x - 26 /* width of desktop */ ),
    y_distribution( 0, size.y - 7 /* height of desktop */ )
{
}

//window creation
void TMyApp::myNewWindow() {
    TRect r( 0, 0, 26, 7 );
    r.move( random_x(), random_y() );
    TMyWindow *window = new TMyWindow( r, "My Window", ++winNumber );
    deskTop->insert( window ); // attache and draw it.
}```

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[raw surge]

If you have some way of detecting the new terminal size, you can use x_distribution.param({ 0, new_size.x - 26 }) or something to change the distribution's parameters on resize

[shut lichen]

Right, thanks.

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