Leaving room for the title bar

[Ken Ray]

> Well, I have geometry to worry about! There are a lot of controls in 
> the window (stack) and they have to arrange themselves sensibly in 
> the available space. I have decided to accommodate the 1024x768, 
> 800x600 and 640x480 screens (teacher feedback again - personally I 
> have not worked on a 640x480 screen on any platform for as long as I 
> can remember).

The only thing I can suggest for the future, Graham (as it's probably
too late for the current product), is to allow support for any size
screen from a minimum of x,y to whatever max the user wants by trapping
the "resizeStack" message and adjusting your fields, buttons, etc.
accordingly. It sound like you are creating three separate layouts based
on screen dimensions (am I correct?) and you never know if you'll get a
weird one thrown in there (like I used to have my Mac set to 1152 x
870), or they'll have resized the taskbar in Windows to be taller, or
have added shareware palettes that cut off screen space, etc.

If you're interested in looking at what a simple resizing script might
be, let me know and I'll post one.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/