Hi Francis,
Accustomed as I am to running a variety of applications pretty much at
the same time and interchangeably, I feel you should stick with your
first approach. Let the user determine what to do. Just make some
suggestions, advising the user in advance of the various repercussions
that might occur with different screen resolutions; OR, optionally, if
the user's screen size is going to be too small, design your
application accordingly - even providing horizontal and vertical
scroll bars; or, as PDFs do, perhaps the ability to zoom or move
around using the hand tool.
You may be worrying too much, since many of us DO have a lot of real
estate these days. Just announce the preferred screen size for best
performance in advance as part of the system requirements and let the
user worry about it. Surprise is the worst thing.
Just some of my thoughts on a late Sunday afternoon.
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 22, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Paris,
I have a stack which has a specific window rect
(don't we all ?).
I want to run the stack on any Mac or PC computer,
but I don't know the current screenRect setting for
my possible target computers, and my stack window
is large enough to provide display problems on other
computers.
Inside preOpenStack using the "get the screenRect"
command, I can judge if the screenRect currently
used on the computer will harbour my stack window.
If the screenRect is not satisfactory, I can request
that the user sets the screenRect using "System
Preferences" on a Mac, or "Control Panel" on a PC,
and then quit my stack. The user can modify the
screenRect and relaunch my stack, but this is a PAIN !
What I REALLY want to do is to know ALL the possible
screenrects for the target computer, change the screenRect
dynamically for the duration of the stack run (choosing
the next highest screenRect in the list which wil accomodate
my window), and reset it back to the original value at the
termination of the stack.
Rev commands can't take me there, but I maybe I can do this
by executing AppleScripts (or the equivalent on a PC)
Anybody solved this problem ? Help gratefully received ...
-Francis
"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"
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