Alex Tweedly wrote:
Most apps that have a single window for a universal toolbar do so in
an MDI, but since we don't have MDI parent window classes there's not
much we can do on that front. And since MDI is being slowly retired
anyway I'm not sure we'd want to invest in that at this time.
With Rev, the toolbar is detached and, perhaps more significantly,
cannot be moved. So if the windowBoundingRect were not adjusted to
account for it, it would be too easy to have a document window
positioned beneath it so that we can't reach the drag bar.
Ummm - we're talking about MS Windows, right ?
D'oh! Good catch. I must remember to sleep this week...
The menu/tool bar isn't fixed position; I can move my toolbar anywhere I
want - both on Win-XP and back when I was on Win2000; and also it's not
full width, so there wouldn't be any problem reaching the drag bar of a
max'ed window beneath it. In fact, earlier on this thread, I mentioned
the fact that windowBoundingRect has its top set to be immediately below
the toolbar - even if that meant that the windowBoundingRect would be
off screen. That I'm sure is a bad idea; I can see the merit in trying
to keep the max'ed windows from obscuring the important IDE ones - but
they should have done the same with the toolbar as they did with the
floating tool palette - reduce the "max" size to avoid it *if* it's in
the "expected" place, otherwise ignore it.
Agreed.
But the main point worth noting for the folks here is that none of this
affects one's own standalone apps.
The implementation of the windowBoundingRect in the engine is pretty
nice, and as far as I can tell it conforms with expectations.
What Rev decides for their own app doesn't affect any decisions we can
make with our own.
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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