Windows title reduced to a single character

[Sarah Reichelt]

Thanks Chris, this was in one of the bug reports and I did try in, but
not in a startup handler, so I'll give it a go there.

Cheers,
Sarah


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at gmail.com> 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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