I believe this is an OS feature and not LiveCode. Mac added the ability to “stack” windows which displays as a second title bar (which is tabs when multiple are stacked). I don’t have one of the new versions that have this feature, so I am not sure how to disable it.
Thanks, Brian On Oct 25, 2018, 8:06 PM -0500, Neville Smythe via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > Thanks for the replies about may setProp question a little while back. But > no-one game me any info about the annoying problem I raised concerning > windows under LC9 and it’s driving me nuts. > > To recap: new stacks (but not old stacks) and some engine windows such as for > scripts and the dictionary open up with a second title bar just under the > main one. The bar gives no extra information and apart from wasting space the > only purpose seems to be to provide a way to iconise the window when it is > dragged, reducing the window to a small square and then redisplaying it in > sometimes strange places, like offscreen, and sometimes expanded to fill the > whole screen with the bottom below the Mac dock so it is not resizable. I > hadn’t noticed it in a dp release of LC9 so I presume it is an “enhancement” > in LC9.0.1; the stacks display as usual under LC8 [The question marks which > will replace my quotes around the word enhancement are entirely appropriate]. > > So maybe you all see it. But does it really behave for you as it does for me > — every time the window opens it appears further up the screen by the width > of the bar, and soon the top of the window disappears under the Mac menu bar, > and so becomes uncloseable. With a small script in the 4DDevo tool I can now > reposition and resize it with a single click but it remains a major annoyance > when trying to manage screen real estate on a laptop. Surely there is a way > to turn this thing off. Grrr! > _______________________________________________ > 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
