On 9/9/2015 2:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Paul Dupuis wrote: > > 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. > > On Ubuntu difference there is a meaningless (though seemingly > non-random) difference between a stack's "rect" and its "effective rect": > <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15097> > > Maybe whatever made "effective rect" broken on Linux is related to > what you're seeing in Windows? > > Possibly not, though: the Linux bug is evident with all stacks, old > or new. > Richard,
Thanks for the tip on the bug entry. It led me to try the same message box test. In this case 'put the effective rect of stack "hrMenubar" && the rect of stack "hrMenubar" returns numbers that are not nonsense: 0,0,1366,59 3,26,1363,56. It does illustrate that, even though it is running under Windows 8, Livecode 6.7.6 thinks the border is only 3px! For contrast, the same test in a new Untitled substack in same mainstack as the "hrMenubar substack, produces 12,138,428,577 20,169,420,569 which has the correct Windows 8 border width of 8px. I think Mark is probably right, it may be some internal property set as part of the imports of the stacks. I'll try to strip it down to just a single substack to illustrate the issue and send it to LiveCode. Thanks again, _______________________________________________ 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