AW: Windows title reduced to a single character

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Chris,

I tried this workaround a year ago and it helped indeed on some machines,
but not on all(weired!), so I didn't used it.
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Chris Sheffield
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 17:18
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: Windows title reduced to a single character
> 
> I failed to mention that I have this line of code in my startup handler.
> Not sure if that's required or not. Might be okay to have it in
> preOpenStack as well.
> 
> On Jan 28, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote:
> 
> > Hi Sarah,
> >
> > I believe this is the workaround we used:
> >
> > 	set the revruntimebehaviour to 4
> >
> > I honestly don't remember the details behind this. It might be
> documented in the bug ticket (7290 or 6343). I think this is an
> undocumented property, and I'm not entirely sure what the value 4 means.
> Sorry for being rather vague. It's also possible that this line of code
> came to me as a result of emailing support directly.
> >
> > Anyway, hope it helps.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:20 AM, 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.
> >>
> >> For further details see:
> >> http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6235
> >> http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=6343
> >> http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7290
> >>
> >> Basically, it means that it is impossible to deploy a professional
> >> looking standalone under Windows if it uses a player.
> >>
> >> Checking the archives of this list, I see that Scott Rossi was reduced
> >> to trying to place a sub-stack over the title bar so as to fake the
> >> title of the stack but I don't know if that was successful. It
> >> certainly seems rather extreme for a problem that has supposedly been
> >> fixed. Mark Waddingham's work-around, suggested in September 2008, of
> >> setting the revRuntimeBehaviour to 4 does not work, at least not in
> >> the versions of Rev that I have tested. Maybe it worked in Rev 3.
> >>
> >> If this cannot be fixed, then I suggest that it be noted in the docs
> >> or on the web site that player objects are not fully implemented or
> >> supported under Windows. And there will then need to be an alternative
> >> supplied that will do the same job for Windows apps.
> >>
> >>
> >> Miffed having spent hours wrestling with this problem,
> >> Sarah
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