Alex Tweedly wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
What should the desired behavior be?
I was unable to find a discussion about handling maximizing properly
in a quick glance at the Win HIG.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch07d.asp
or
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowfeatures.asp
Both of which say (paraphrased)
"by default a maximized window is full-screen, but the app can choose to
make its maximized size be smaller or even larger than that"
and also
"full-screen [taken] to exclude the system or appropriate application
defined toolbars".
Your guidance on where I can find that would be much appreciated.
No idea what, if anything, MS's HIG says - but I can tell you what
every (*) Windows program I've used in the last 10 years does - it
maximizes the window to cover everything except any non-auto-hide
taskbar. So if the task bar is set to auto-hide, then the window
covers the entire visible screen; if not auto-hide, it covers the
complete rectangle which doesn't overlap the task bar.
(*) every means literally every program I've used except Rev; I'm not
aware of
So given that the HIG says you can do anything you like, the current
behaviour is within the guidelines :-). But even if it's within these
very loose guidelines, it's still different from every other app I know,
even those which have toolbars, and therefore is confusing.
Jon said:
And explaining to a user why my software does not work like other
Windows software just seems to be a waste of everyone's time.
I don't think that'll be an issue Jon - when outside the IDE, it behaves
like I'd expect - maximize gives full-screen, and adjusts for the system
task-bar.
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