Changing the screenRect within a stack

[Brian Yennie]

Francis,

Philosophical screen wars aside, here is a link that might get you  
started on MacOS. I think the short answer is that there is no easy  
way to do this in Rev or AppleScript, so you need to resort to a  
command-line utility. You can of course call it directly from Rev  
using shell() -- no need to get AppleScript involved.

http://www.barbariangroup.com/posts/619-changing_screen_resolution_from_the_command_line_on_a_mac

> Hi from Paris,
>
> Thanks to all for your philosophical suggestions
> (but no practical solutions). And I was right ! Rev
> doesn't appear have the means to do all this !
> I had (of course), thought about the raping of the
> users computer, but I already have programs that do
> this, but as long as they return to normal behaviour
> afterwards, I don't worry about a program which
> changes my screenrect. My monitors can handle more than
> 10 screenrects, and I change whenever I need to do so !
>
> I had thought of ALL of the mechanisms which could help
> me (scrolling bars, reduction of all fields and buttons,
> depending on the available screenRect, but quite honestly,
> I don't have 6 months to dynamically modify windows, fields
> buttons, textsizes, etc, etc.for a stack that took me a day
> to write. And I think it ridiculous to write a stack which
> will run on any monitor when 17" and 19" are the common use,
> and screenRect was designed JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE !
>
> I just want to change the screenRect, based upon what sizes
> are available in the host computers. And I will !
>
> Of course, I will ask the user if he agrees ......
> He can always say no....... !
>
> So I reckon, I will have to find out how to do it myself.
>
> -Francis
>
> "nothing should ever be done for the first time !"