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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