Richard MacLemale wrote:
>
> Dear list,
> This is annoying me because I like everything to be neat and tidy. I don't
> like hacks.
>
> Here's the deal. I'm just finishing up an app which needs to be able to be
> run on 640 by 480 Macs (this is education.) Before the old argument flares
> up about what education wants, believe me, there are still schools with old
> Macs and in this case they specifically asked for this screen size!
> Anyway...
>
> I'm trying to cram everything I can into this limited screen real estate,
> and I've got the stack size set to 621 by 427. I crammed everything in, and
> all is cool, until I put my screen into 640 by 480 resolution to test it.
> Suddenly MetaCard decides that when I open the stack it's going to resize my
> stack and remove about 20 pixels from the bottom of it! So I set the stack
> height and width in the stack "on preOpenStack" script, and then it opens at
> the correct 621 by 421 size... but it opens too high! The title bar of the
> stack is sitting underneath the Mac OS menu bar. Obviously this won't work,
> so I decide to set the location. I enter this:
> on preOpenStack
> set the loc of this stack to 319,256
> set the width of this stack to 621
> set the height of this stack to 427
> end preOpenStack
>
> Here's what happens... it opens at the correct size but it ignores the
> location I entered. So I change it to:
> on preOpenStack
> set the width of this stack to 621
> set the height of this stack to 427
> set the loc of this stack to 319,256
> end preOpenStack
>
> Does this work? NO! It THEN opens with the correct position, but ignores
> the height I set and changes it to 395! ARGH. This is really annoying.
>
> So I change the handler to "on openStack" and THEN it works fine. But of
> course you see the stack first come in at the wrong size and then jump to
> the proper size. This is visually annoying and makes my app look
> amateurish.
You might want to try to open stacks invisible, put them where you want
them and make them visible.
>
> OK, I realize I'm not programming in Objective C here, and if this is the
> only way to get it done I'll chalk it up to compromise. But if I'm missing
> something here, could someone please turn the light on for me? I'm not sure
> why MetaCard would want to (by default) ignore height and location settings
> in a preOpenStack handler. If it's supposed to be a feature, I'd disagree
> and argue that it's a bug... anyone run across this before?
>
> :)
> Richard MacLemale
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> James W. Mitchell High School
>
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