This sounds like there's a legacy flag on those older stacks but I'm not sure what it might be.
If you file a bug report and attach one of the stacks or send one to Hanson we'll take a look. Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Sep 2015, at 19:11, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > > I have an application (main stack + many substacks + several external > stacks) that is ancient (originally built in HyperCard, ported to > Supercard, ported to Metacard, and on up to LiveCode 6.7.6. > > I was working on redoing some of the legacy screen layout code today - > taking advantage of 'the working screenrect' (working didn't exist way > back when) and 'the effective rect' of a stack (effective wasn't > available either) > A multi-window layout should now be as easy as get the working > screenrect and divide it up and set the effective rect of the stacks > (windows) to the divided up values. No more fudge factors for varying OS > window borders and title bars and such. Yea! > > However, I have run into a puzzler. Under Windows 8 (and Win 7) when I > set the effective rect of a stack to 0,0,x,y or set the effective > topLeft of a stack to 0,0, that stack is NOT taking into account the > wider window borders of Windows 7 and 8 and is positioning the stack > with part of its borders off screen - it is like the stack thinks it's > window borders were the thinner ones back under Windows 2000 or XP! > > This only occur with old stacks in the application - i.e. stacks > originally migrated from HyperCard > SuperCard > Metacard >Revolution. > If I create a new "Untitled 1" substack in the old legacy mainstack and > set it's effective topLeft to 0,0, it renders exactly as expected. > > I tried cloning (as in "clone stack <name>" one of the legacy stacks and > it also thinks it has thinner window borders that it really does. > > All these stacks have been saved from LC676 in the latest stack format > (the were previously in LC464). I created a new test mainstak and > substack in LC676 and the effective keyword works exactly as expected > with stacks. I also created an identical test stack under LC464 (the > oldest version I have) and the tried that under LC676 and it works > exactly as expected. > > I just appears to be really ancient stacks that have been > imported/migrated rather than any new stacks. Has anyone seen anything > like this? > > I'd rather not have to recreate each of these legacy stack by creating a > new "Untitled" stack and populating all the objects, scripts, > properties, etc, to fix this issue. > > Paul Dupuis > Researchware > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
