Can you make a stack larger than the screen rect under Windows?

[Alex Tweedly]

At 22:58 31/07/2004 -0400, Howard Bornstein wrote:

> > I think Howard was talking about the user interactively resizing the
> > window... this is a Windows limitation AFAIK. You can resize it with
> > script,
> > but just not interactively.
>
>Yes, that's exactly what I was referring to. So are you confirming
>this limitation? Is this only in Revolution or does this limitation
>exist with other applications? (I just answered my own question--tried
>the same thing with Internet Explorer and it acts the same way: you
>can't make the window larger that the screen rectangle.)
>
>Gee, Windows is dandy.

If you *really* *really* want the functionality for your users, it should 
be possible to detect when the window is partially off-screen, and 
(programmatically) trim the window size to only the part that is on-screen. 
This would always allow the user to expand the on-screen edges - and then 
you could re-adjust if the window moved again.

You'd have to be really desperate to get the functionality to justify all 
this work - and even then you might  have some oddities with menus 
appearing unexpectedly. But I have used something like this technique to 
overcome windowing system limitations in the (dim, distant) past. (Apollo 
Systems, early '80s - details are gone ...)

-- Alex.