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OpenStudio: Create window with nothing but offset from floor and offset from ceiling?

My windows are basically from 1' off the floor until 3' from the ceiling and span the surface width of the surface.

The existing method is setWindowToWallRatio (double wwr, double desiredHeightOffset, bool heightOffsetFromFloor): it doesn't accept TWO offsets, and you must specify a window to wall ratio, and this window to wall ratio MUST not be too large to fit on the surface after the offset is done (and offset from floor of 1 meter and a wwr of 0.99 will not work).

So, using a (bad) while loop decrementing the wwr until the setWindowToWallRatio returns an initialized window, I can quickly put a window on my wall that will take the largest admissible wwr given an offset from the floor OR from the ceiling, but not BOTH.

Is there a method similar to surface.setWindowToWallRatio(double desiredHeightOffsetFromFloor, double desiredHeightOffsetFromCeiling) somewhere?