maximizing the stack/card

[Alex Tweedly]

Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch07d.asp
or
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/windows/windowfeatures.asp

Both of which say (paraphrased)
"by default a maximized window is full-screen, but the app can choose to 
make its maximized size be smaller or even larger than that"
 and also
"full-screen [taken] to exclude the system or appropriate application 
defined toolbars".

>> Your guidance on where I can find that would be much appreciated.
>>
> No idea what, if anything, MS's HIG says - but I can tell you what 
> every (*) Windows program I've used in the last 10 years does - it 
> maximizes the window to cover everything except any non-auto-hide 
> taskbar. So if the task bar is set to auto-hide, then the window 
> covers the entire visible screen; if not auto-hide, it covers the 
> complete rectangle which doesn't overlap the task bar.
>
> (*) every means literally every program I've used except Rev; I'm not 
> aware of
>
So given that the HIG says you can do anything you like, the current 
behaviour is within the guidelines :-). But even if it's within these 
very loose guidelines, it's still different from every other app I know, 
even those which have toolbars, and therefore is confusing.

Jon said:

> And explaining to a user why my software does not work like other 
> Windows software just seems to be a waste of everyone's time.

I don't think that'll be an issue Jon - when outside the IDE, it behaves 
like I'd expect - maximize gives full-screen, and adjusts for the system 
task-bar.


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