maximizing the stack/card
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jul 13 13:47:39 EDT 2005
Jon wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> It is a bit amusing that Rev reduces the vertical size of a maximized
> app so that the toolbar can be visible. The toolbar is obscured almost
> all of the time by the myriad of mis-managed windows when run under
> Windows. This token effort to keep things looking good is useless.
> Until the messy way that all of the Rev windows are managed, under
> Windows at least, any other ameliorative efforts are worthless. If Rev
> managed <alt><tab> behavior correctly (the way people switch between
> applications under Windows) then the application could be correctly
> maximized without a problem. At the moment, the fact that Rev
> applications do not function as every other Windows application
> functions can only be viewed as a bug by anyone who uses Windows software.
What should the desired behavior be?
I was unable to find a discussion about handling maximizing properly in
a quick glance at the Win HIG. Your guidance on where I can find that
would be much appreciated.
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Richard Gaskin
Managing Editor, revJournal
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