>At 22:58 31/07/2004 -0400, Howard Bornstein wrote: > >> > I think Howard was talking about the user interactively resizing the >> > window... this is a Windows limitation AFAIK. You can resize it with >> > script, >> > but just not interactively. >> >>Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to. So are you confirming >>this limitation? Is this only in Revolution or does this limitation >>exist with other applications? (I just answered my own question--tried >>the same thing with Internet Explorer and it acts the same way: you >>can't make the window larger that the screen rectangle.) >> >>Gee, Windows is dandy. > >If you *really* *really* want the functionality for your users, it should >be possible to detect when the window is partially off-screen, and >(programmatically) trim the window size to only the part that is on-screen. >This would always allow the user to expand the on-screen edges - and then >you could re-adjust if the window moved again. > >You'd have to be really desperate to get the functionality to justify all >this work - and even then you might have some oddities with menus >appearing unexpectedly. But I have used something like this technique to >overcome windowing system limitations in the (dim, distant) past. (Apollo >Systems, early '80s - details are gone ...) > >-- Alex.
The limiting factor is not the screenrect but the windowboundingrect. I checked and you can in fact set the windowboundingrect to be wider than the screen, and this does allow the behaviour that I think you wanted. Martin Baxter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
