maximizing the stack/card

[Jon]

Richard:

"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."

My point is that does NOT do a good job on my computer.  End of 
statement. It reserves space for a task bar that is not visible (auto 
hiding); and it does so along the wrong axis (vertical rather than 
horizontal).

I think this is a bug.  I'll BZ it now.

Jon


Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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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