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

[Ken Ray]

On 7/31/04 3:58 PM, "Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com"
<Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com> wrote:

>> ...
>> It would be useful if the user could move the window to
>> the left so the left side of the window was off the
>> screen, and then "grow" the scrollable part to the right
>> ...
>> 
>> Is there a way around this? I assume this is a Window's limitation.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Howard Bornstein
> 
> A limitation? ... In Windows???? ...  What?????
> 
> Make a small 200x200 stack and put this little script in a button.
> Every time I click it, the stack window grows, and continues to grow
> off-screen.
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put the rect of this stack into newStackRect
>   put (item 3 of newStackRect)+100 into item 3 of newStackRect
>   set the rect of this stack to newStackRect
>   put the rect of this stack
> end mouseUp
> 
> or you can also do a 1 liner...
> set the width of this stack to (the width of this stack)+100
> 
> But this "grows" the stack in both directions
> 
> Are you seeing a different behavior? I am using Windows 2000.

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.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
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