Windows title reduced to a single character

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Has anyone managed to find a work-around to the problem with a stack's
> title being reduced to a single character under Windows, if there is a
> player on the card? This is proving a real blocker for me at the
> moment, despite several bug reports, one of which says it was fixed in
> Rev 3.0. I'm using Rev 4.0 and a pre-release of Rev 4.5 and it's still
> happening there. So far the only solution I have found is to build the
> app using Rev 2.8 which seems a bit ridiculous and causes other
> problems.

Sarah, I was never able to find a workaround for this.  I was able to get
past it by using a custom titlebar (this was by design for the project, so
it worked out OK) but this is by no means a solution.

The one hack that was proposed which seemed to have some merit was to
display the video in a separate decoration-less palette stack at the
intended player location above the main stack.  I believe on Windows the
moveStack message is sent while dragging a standard window, so you could
account for users dragging the main stack and reposition the video stack
simultaneously.  Of course, minimizing the main stack will present some
challenges.   Had I needed to deliver my app with standard system
decorations, I probably would have gone this route.

I haven't had a chance to play with Rev 4.5 but if the title issue is still
present, I fully agree that this a major issue and needs to be dealt with
ASAP.  I don't see how anyone can take an app seriously that can't even
display its own name properly.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design