Mac menus and stack resizing

[Kevin Miller]

On 2/1/02 10:42 am, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

>> I'm having trouble with the automatic stack resizing feature that hides the
>> menu buttons for Mac menus.  On some (but not all) stacks, the stack keeps
>> resizing smaller and smaller every time the stack opens--like the feature
>> can't figure out that it's already hidden the buttons before.  I've tried
>> un-setting the button group as the menu and then re-setting it, but the
>> behavior persists. I haven't found mention of this in back issues of the
>> use-rev list--anyone else have this problem?
> 
> Yes.  Very annoying.
> 
>> Any way to get it to stop? (I'm using 1.1 on Mac System 8.6)
> 
> Not that I've found, on 1.0 or 1.1 on MacOS 9.1.  The best I could do,
> provided you have a fixed height that you want the stack to be, was to add
> an openstack handler that reset the stack height every time.  Note that it
> doesn't work if you do this in preopenstack, so it's visible to the users.
> And if you want the stack to be different sizes in different contexts, as I
> did, it all gets more ugly.
> 
> However, I sent RunRev a small repro demo, and they verified it, so fixing
> this should be _somewhere_ in their to-do list.

This should be fixed in 1.1.1B1 - please confirm?

Kevin

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