Curiousness

I have come across two perplexing issues in the last day and a half.

First, when I specify a window size of -width 250 -height 450, I get a window that takes up half my screen.
I have made sure that none of the children of the window are larger than the maximum width and height, but it still displays a HUGE window. My screen resolution is at 1680 x 1050. It is a big window.

Second, I attempt to create a spaceLocator at position 0 7 0, then scale it .15, then create two more with the same steps but different locations.. but I end up with 3 small locators at not the right worldSpace positions. They are in the correct location but it is as if they were grouped and scaled.

Any ideas as to what I am missing?

For the window case If you created a window and u just resized that . then again try to laod the window maya will load your window with the resized height and width

so you can use like this

CODE
{
if (window -exits "mywindow")
{
deleteUI -window "mywindow";
}
window -title "Test" -wh 250 450 mywindow;
winodw -e -wh 250 450 mywindow;
showWindow;
}