Richard, Amen! I completely agree with you. It is hard to understand why this problem hasn't been fixed. Maybe it will be fixed in Rev. 10.0 in 2014.
Charles Szasz [email protected] On Apr 29, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Richard Gaskin [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: > Jeff Massung wrote: > > > I think part of the problem here is that Rev treats the main menu as a > > [background?] group of controls that need to be part of the stack. This is > > a > > fundamental flaw in design. > > ...if you spend most of your time on a Mac. > > On Windows and Linux there are sometimes significant and useful > variances in how menus are implemented. Check out the Ribbon in Office > 12 as perhaps the biggest shift, but in addition to that there are times > when it can be helpful to put other controls at the top of the window > along with your menus, as Chipp noted here about one of his own apps > last year. > > So if menus were implemented as something entirely separate, ideally it > would be a separate thing that would allow complete design freedom, as > with a stack. Or a group. And of course we have groups for that now. > > If this one bug were fixed this issue wouldn't be nearly the problem it is. > > I'm told Mark Waddingham knows where the line of code is that causes > this, so I'm not sure why it's been outstanding as long as it has. > > Of course none of this is an attempt to suggest that Rev's current > implementation strikes any sort of perfect balance between conformity to > OS convention and design freedom. But like they say, "perfect is the > enemy of results". :) So far the range of alternatives suggested has > been broad, few of which could be implemented inexpensively, and all of > which provide only incremental benefits beyond what we currently have > (I'd sooner see a stack viewer object, which would give us the menu > enhancement along with a whole lot more: > <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=2786>). > > In a world where my own list of ways I'd like to see RunRev spend their > money is long and involves things that can't be easily worked around, I > don't oppose proposals to pursue some ideal menu system but if it were > up to me it wouldn't be my highest priority. > > That said, if it were up to me I'd fix this one bug post haste. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [hidden email] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > View message @ > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Card-cut-off-at-bottom-because-of-menu-tp2075550p2075713.html > > To unsubscribe from Card cut off at bottom because of menu, click here. > -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Card-cut-off-at-bottom-because-of-menu-tp2075550p2075736.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
