Shrinking Mac stack

[Mark Talluto]

On Apr 4, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> I am still having the problem where the bottom of a stack gets cut 
>> off on Mac standalone builds when the stack contains a menu bar. This 
>> has been going on forever and usually (but not always) can be fixed 
>> by setting the desired stack height in a preopenstack handler.
>>
>> Since I don't see many complaints about this behavior, I'm wondering 
>> if others are still seeing it or if it is just me. If it is just me, 
>> does anyone know what causes it? I'd very much like to avoid using 
>> the work-around hack if possible.
>
> I hadn't seen this in a while but not more than 10 minutes after 
> reading this I noticed this on an app we are testing right now.  I 
> don't see it on my development computer but it does happen on another 
> computer here at the office.  So the bug is still alive and well.
>
> In the case I'm looking at right now the card height is reported 
> correctly and my controls resize to the visible size of the stack but 
> the bottom 21 pixels of the stack are just white (my graphics/controls 
> are cut off).  When I switch to use the stack height to resize 
> controls then my controls resize just above the 21 pixels that are 
> white.
>
> So it would appear that Revolution is displaying the window equal to 
> the height of the card but only drawing controls into a height equal 
> to the height of the stack.
>

I have noticed that the problem arises when you do the following:

1.  Build the stack to look as it should on the Mac first
2.  Build the Win standalone on a Mac.

The Win version will push everything down to make room for the menubar.

If you build the standalone on the Win system, all is well.


Mark Talluto
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