maximizing the stack/card

[Richard Gaskin]

Jon wrote:
> Eric,
> 
> Thanks.  On my windows system, the task bar is on the left, not on the 
> bottom; and it auto-hides, rather than always being visible.  So, the 
> correct behavior on my system would be for all applications to expand to 
> fill the screen.  On other computers, this might NOT be the correct 
> behavior.  Simply setting the windowsBoundingRect to the screenRect 
> would be correct on my computer, but might screw someone else up.
> 
> This defect seems to me to be a minor bug in Rev.  Do you agree?

It would be if the windowBoundingRect were fixed to one size for all 
machines.  But it's not:  it's calculated dynamically when the app 
starts, based on system calls which tells it the location and size of 
these elements.

It does a reliable job of accounting for the OS X Dock in all positions 
and sizes I've tested, and seems to do well with the Task Bar on Windows 
in all sizes I've tested on.  I haven't tested with a placement on the 
sides, but since it's using system calls for this I'd be surprised if it 
didn't also do that one well; if not then yes, that would be a bug.

The engine initializes the windowBoundingRect to be the full size of the 
main display less these trimmings.  The Rev IDE changes it to also 
account for its toolbar, which your app can do also if it needs to 
support a toolbar.

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