Standalone cuts off stack

Frank D. Engel, Jr. fde101 at fjrhome.net
Tue Dec 21 16:25:45 EST 2004


No, setting the height of a card should have no effect.  The trick is 
to figure out the height of the stack when the menu bar is displayed in 
the stack, then set the height of the stack to that value from within 
the preOpenStack handler.

On Dec 21, 2004, at 4:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 12/21/04 7:07 AM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:
>
>> 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).
>
> Makes sense, and I could implement this. I suspect the problem has 
> something to do with the distribution builder though, as it doesn't 
> happen when I build in MetaCard. In MC, building a standalone is a 
> transparent process where you don't have to consider the stack size at 
> all.
>
> For now, I'll set the height of the card rather than the stack. That 
> is what you are describing, I think.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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