On 4/11/14, 12:22 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
I think there may be a number of kinds of app where the relation between a window and the objects within it should be constant across platforms (for example to show a particularly shaped image which reaches the edges of the stack window all around
Just for the record, nothing really changes when the stack scrolls up on a Mac. The "visible" content rect stays the same; on Windows, it is the area between the bottom of the menu bar and the bottom of the stack. It's the same on a Mac, except that the area of the menu bar is hidden. Coordinates do not change, so if the equations you're using rely on screen coordinates they will still work; the upper left of the visible area on Windows is the same as the upper left of the visible area on Mac (usually about 0,27). The 0,0 coordinate on any platform is not available when there is a menu, because it is occupied by the menu group on all platforms.
You have a workaround, so there are two ways to do it. But as far as usability goes, nothing is different. Dr Raney always advised that we should create the menu bar first and position all objects relative to that. That way, everything just works.
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