Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

Hi from Brittany, Thanks to Brian and Sparkout for their valuable links. I will try to do a clean and politically acceptable job. Oh ! And a bigger belated thank you to Brian for all of his Hypercard externals I used for so many years . ! -Francis "Nothing should ever be done for the first

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

bars, reduction of all fields and buttons, >> depending on the available screenRect, but quite honestly, >> I don't have 6 months to dynamically modify windows, fields >> buttons, textsizes, etc, etc.for a stack that took me a day >> to write. And I think it ridiculous to wr

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

etc.for a stack that took me a day to write. And I think it ridiculous to write a stack which will run on any monitor when 17" and 19" are the common use, and screenRect was designed JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE ! I just want to change the screenRect, based upon what sizes are available in the h

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

; are the common use, and screenRect was designed JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE ! I just want to change the screenRect, based upon what sizes are available in the host computers. And I will ! Of course, I will ask the user if he agrees .. He can always say no... ! So I reckon, I will have to fin

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

t; wrote: From: "Francis Nugent Dixon" Subject:Changing the screenRect within a stack Date: February 22, 2009 6:14:53 PM EST To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Hi from Paris, I have a stack which has a specific window rect (don't we all ?). I want to run the stack on any

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

Mark, Yes you are right about the kiosk - a bad example. In any case, my point was more that we don't know the particulars of the application in question. I share your distaste for badly behaved software, but surely there are some cases where it's ok for software to change your screen res

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

Hi Brian, I agree in the case of full-screen video games, but we don't make those in Rev (yet?). I'm not sure that I agree in the case of video players. When a video player changes the screen resolution, the movie is often displayed with a bad screen geometry and I wouldn't recommend it.

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

Mark, While I agree with you in principle, I think it's worth noting that an application can always ASK the user for permission to change the screen resolution and then do it for you with your approval. Also, there are some cases (such as full screen video players or kiosks) where it is p

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

possible target computers, and my stack window is large enough to provide display problems on other computers. Inside preOpenStack using the "get the screenRect" command, I can judge if the screenRect currently used on the computer will harbour my stack window. If the screenRect is not sa

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

stack window is large enough to provide display problems on other computers. Inside preOpenStack using the "get the screenRect" command, I can judge if the screenRect currently used on the computer will harbour my stack window. If the screenRect is not satisfactory, I can request that t

Re: Changing the screenRect within a stack

You should be able to do it all for all supported platforms right in native Transcipt. See the Dictionary entries for : desktopChanged windowBoundingRect working screenRect -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev develop

Changing the screenRect within a stack

s on other computers. Inside preOpenStack using the "get the screenRect" command, I can judge if the screenRect currently used on the computer will harbour my stack window. If the screenRect is not satisfactory, I can request that the user sets the screenRect using "System Preferences" o

Re: the ScreenRect

actually, I was not able to do full test of the Windows version (no PC with dual monitor in the office) If someone could test and tell us the result, it would be great. Thank you. Thierry On 2005, Jun 7, , at 21:47, Troy Rollins wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I wond

Re: the ScreenRect

Thank you Andre. Here is the code : static charstaticText[255]; #ifdef __STDC__ void XTK_ScreenRect( char*args[], int nargs, char**retstring, Bool*pass, Bool*error) #else void XTK_ScreenRect(args, nargs, retstring, pass, e

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I wonder if there are registry settings you can find on the Window side for at least figuring out where the screens are? I would imagine that Thierry's windows version would work equally well. I just had not tried them on Windows, so couldn't

Re: the ScreenRect

Hi Troy, I wonder if there are registry settings you can find on the Window side for at least figuring out where the screens are? -Chipp Troy Rollins wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Thierry Arbellot wrote: Could this help ? For the record, Thierry helped me get this working in OSX

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Thierry Arbellot wrote: Could this help ? I have developed a function in an external that returns the coordinates of all monitors, one per line. The main screen is in the first line. function name: xTKScreenRect() It's available for download MacOS X http://ww

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Thierry Arbellot wrote: Could this help ? For the record, Thierry helped me get this working in OSX at least. So tests can continue on my part for at least one of my apps. -- Troy RPSystems, Ltd. http://www.rpsystems.net ___

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Wouter wrote: There are more problems with second screens than the screenrect, see bug 2426 (mousecolor, dropper tool not picking up color on second screen). Which is still a bug in rev 2.6. Ah. Hadn't noticed that one. While those functions may n

Re: the ScreenRect

Hi, There are more problems with second screens than the screenrect, see bug 2426 (mousecolor, dropper tool not picking up color on second screen). Which is still a bug in rev 2.6. Greetings, Wouter ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: the ScreenRect

Could this help ? I have developed a function in an external that returns the coordinates of all monitors, one per line. The main screen is in the first line. function name: xTKScreenRect() It's available for download MacOS X http://www.digital-salade.com/toki/download/TokiUtilities.bundle.

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We also need multi-monitor support. Our applications provide tools for a graphics department of 20 PC workstations. All of these have dual monitors using Nvidia cards. My apps developed with Rev will fail to work properly unless they are

Re: the ScreenRect

porting of > multiple monitors in the ScreenRect property. Still doesn't huh? An > awful lot of people have more than one monitor these days. I have a > project which specifically needs to support 2 monitors... hopefully I > am missing something obvious. If not, does anyone have a

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I know it's a hack but probably theres a way to probe the MacOS X System using command line tools to see if there's another monitor attached. The 'scutil' might hold something. I am sure that by finding the correct key to probe will show the an

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Troy Rollins wrote: Having been away for a while (again) I was kind of hoping that one of the last couple of updates would have allowed us to get reporting of multiple monitors in the ScreenRect property. Still doesn't huh? An awful lot of people have more

Re: the ScreenRect

On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Interested developers can cast their vote for Ben Rubenstein's excellent suggestion, "the detailed screenRect" Wouldn't ya know... I already have 5 votes on that. ;-) Darn. -- T

Re: the ScreenRect

Troy Rollins wrote: Having been away for a while (again) I was kind of hoping that one of the last couple of updates would have allowed us to get reporting of multiple monitors in the ScreenRect property. Still doesn't huh? An awful lot of people have more than one monitor these days. I h

the ScreenRect

Having been away for a while (again) I was kind of hoping that one of the last couple of updates would have allowed us to get reporting of multiple monitors in the ScreenRect property. Still doesn't huh? An awful lot of people have more than one monitor these days. I have a project

Re: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)

On 6/17/04 12:21 PM, Raymond E. Griffith wrote: - Original Message - From: "Howard Bornstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort

Re: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)

On Jun 17, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Raymond E. Griffith wrote: There is no "rect" of a card, simply the rect of the stack. Set the rect of your group to the rect of the stack, and you should be good to go. Actually typing "put the rect of this card" works fine (I assume the engine just uses the rect of

Re: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)

- Original Message - From: "Howard Bornstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:26 PM Subject: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of) > These are the kind of problems that j

Re: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)--Solved

So it turns out this was caused by my setting "lock screen" before creating the stack. IOW: lock screen create stack mapname For some reason, even though lock screen is supposed to only lock the *visual* aspects of Rev, it also locks in the stack's size when the stack was created, even after ex

Re: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)

Recently, "Howard Bornstein" wrote: > These are the kind of problems that just drive me batty. > > I create a stack via code. Then I set it to the rect of the screenrect. > > I do a bunch of stuff, including adding items to the stack. Then I > group the items. >

Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)

These are the kind of problems that just drive me batty. I create a stack via code. Then I set it to the rect of the screenrect. I do a bunch of stuff, including adding items to the stack. Then I group the items. Finally, I set the rect of the group to the rect of the card (which should be the