Thanks Phil, I'll check it out. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Phil Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pete, > > Check out the windowBoundingRect - that might help. > > Phil > > > > On 1/28/12 1:15 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I'm in the midst of dealing with adjusting stack sizes to fit within the >> user's screen resolution. I guess I'm looking for confirmation of a few >> things since I've made assumptions in the past that turned out to be >> wrong! >> >> Starting with the screenRect. Dictionary says the working screenRect >> takes >> account of screen decorations. On a Mac, looks like that means the system >> menu bar at the top of the screen (22 pixels). It also mentions the dock, >> but unless the dock is specified to be permanently visible it only allows >> 4 >> pixels for it. If the dock is always visible, then it does seem to take >> that into account. >> >> Next I'm looking at the rectangle of a stack. Once again taking the >> dictionary definition, it says a stack's rectangle is relative to the top >> and left of the screen. However, if I create a stack that is the full >> height of the screen, with it's top aligned with the bottom of the Mac >> system menu bar, the top of the stack is reported to be 44, whereas the >> working screenRect top is 22. I'm concluding that the stack rectangle is >> measured from the bottom of the stack decorations bar. >> >> Finally, I'm wondering how running on a Windows machine affects any of >> this. For example, Windows includes a menu bar at the top of each window >> right underneath the decorations bar. Is the width of that menu bar taken >> into account in the stack's rectangle, in addition to the decorations bar? >> >> Thanks for any confirmation/enlightenment! >> >> >> > -- > Phil Davis > > PDS Labs > Professional Software Development > http://pdslabs.net > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
