Standalone cuts off stack

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

I have noticed that the menubar seems to resize the stack somewhere 
between preOpenStack and openStack.  If you set the stack height in 
preOpenStack, you need to set it as if the menu bar were in the stack 
window (Windows/UNIX style), and if you set it in the openStack 
handler, you need to consider the platform and set it to the desired 
height for the platform you are on (which is a visible process).

The best solution I have found is to figure out the size as on 
Windows/UNIX (go into the menu builder and set the menu bar to display 
in the window, then use the property inspector on the stack window to 
check the height), and set the height to this in the preOpenStack 
handler.  No platform checks, no visible resize -- it just works.

And I have been seeing this for a while here, on a mainstack.  I 
eventually just gave up on Rev doing this one right in a standalone (I 
occasionally saw the stack resized incorrectly in the IDE too, but 
setting the height this way solved it for both), so I stick this into 
the "important" stacks I do to take care of that problem, which I would 
see consistently in standalone mainstacks and substacks.

On Dec 20, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> I have a stack with a menubar. When I try to build a standalone from 
>> it, the bottom of the stack is cut off by the height of the menubar. 
>> This does not happen if I build in MetaCard, so the problem is 
>> apparently with the distribution builder.
>>
>> I have added a command line in a preopenstack handler to reset the 
>> stack size, but that doesn't work either. The stack consistently 
>> displays with the bottom edge missing. There are no scripts in the 
>> standalone that set the stack dimensions otherwise.
>>
>> Anyone know what causes this or how to fix it? For now, I am building 
>> in MetaCard.
>
> I stumbled across a workaround that seems very reliable. In a 
> preOpenStack handler, resize the stack relative to an object on the 
> first card. It seems that when a stack first opens, its height is 
> unaffected by the menubar and later on it is (or vice versa), so the 
> absolute pixel values for the dimensions vary, but if you use the 
> dimensions of another object to set the stack height, then it all 
> works, no matter what Rev thinks at the time.
>
> In one stack, I have a Mac menubar, and right at the bottom of the 
> stack window, I have a field called "Legal". In the preOpenStack 
> handler, this works perfectly:
>
>   set the height of stack "NG_Pod" to the bottom of fld "Legal" + 2
>
> In the IDE, it makes my stack too big, if it calls the preOpenStack 
> (which it usually doesn't), but I don't worry about that, since it 
> always comes good in the built app.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>

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