Distribution builder alters stack window size?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Graham Samuel <livfoss at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:19:38 -0500  Howard Bornstein 
> <bornstein at designeq.com> wrote:
> >
> >I've recently run into this same problem. The
> distribution builder is
> >supposed to create systems that are platform aware.
> So that on a PC, the
> >stack is enlarged to show the menus at the top of
> the window, but on a
> >Mac, the same stack is shrunk to hide the menus
> since they appear in the
> >menu bar.
> >
> >For some reason, on my last build, it didn't seem
> to work very well. My
> >Windows stack had the bottom of the stack cut off
> (but the Mac stack was
> >ok).
> >
> >So, I decided to simply control this stuff myself.
> It's very easy.
> >
> >Within the On Openstack handler:
> >
> >if the platform = "win32" then -- adjust the stack
> to the size you want
> >for Windows
> >   set the height of this stack to [whatever you
> need]
> >else -- Now handle the Mac platform
> >   set the height of this stack to [the appropriate
> Mac height]
> >end if
> >
> >Note that in my case, I'm only developing for Mac
> or PC so my little
> >check doesn't take into account the Unix platform.
> 
> Thanks Howard, my requirements are the same as yours
> (no Unix) so 
> I'll copy what you're doing. This does seem to be a
> bug - only some 
> of my builds are affected, and I can't work out what
> I've changed 
> between the ones that work and the ones that don't
> work... maybe it 
> will all go away in version 2.0 but in this instance
> I can't wait to 
> find out.
> 
> Anyway very useful tip.
> 
> Graham

Hi Graham,

The only thing I can think of that could cause this
shifting is the 'editMenus' property. Have you checked
that?

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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