I'm still having a strange time with these two entities in a desktop Mac app 
which is also designed to work on PCs. All I'm trying to do is to have a Mac 
menu at the top of the screen, i.e. in the normal place for Macs, but NOT to 
have the stack size altered compared to the PC version, where the menu bar will 
be at the top of the window. This doesn't seem to work for me, certainly not in 
the IDE. If I want my menu active in the Mac version, it seems I must set the 
editMenus to false, which triggers the engine to change the size of my stack 
(it takes 30 pixels off the height).

What I want to do is to set a group to be a menu bar (set the menuBar of this 
stack to "myMenuGroup"), but also place it at the top of the window where the 
PC version will use it, and then simply hide the PC version of the menu if I'm 
not running on a PC. I do not want the stack size to change. However, within 
the Mac IDE, unless I set the editmenus to false, the IDE will not display my 
menu but will just continue showing its own one. I don't think this used to 
happen, but I can show it happening now. This augurs badly for the eventual 
standalone.

Is anyone else trying to develop a cross-platform (Windows and Mac) app where 
the window (stack) size stays the same on both platforms? FWIW I'm using LC 
6.6.1 Commercial on Mavericks 10.9.2 - though the problem seems to have existed 
for some time.

I guess I did something wrong, but I now have a very simple test stack that 
shows the above behaviour, so unless there is a trick, I may have to code my 
way out of the problem by forcing the stack size to change back after editMenus 
is set.

Has anyone got a better solution?

TIA

Graham

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