Another naive iOS question - filling the iPad screen

[Pete]

This isn't right on topic but the stack height on desktop doesn't include
the menu bar which really surprised me.
Pete

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:43 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 2/14/12 11:54 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>
>> I read that the size of the screen available to a LC stack on the
>> iPad is 1024 x 768, so I made a stack that big. I then placed a
>> graphic on the screen which was intended to provide a black
>> background: I made this 1024 x 768 as well, and I set its top corners
>> to 0,0. Oddly a chunk of white showed at the bottom  of the window,
>> and if I moved my graphic down 24 pixels, the chunk of white showed
>> at the top. So the sizes aren't the same. If I show the stack on the
>> simulator, I get the same effect, i.e. not all the screen is black,
>> but instead a 24-pixel chunk of white appears, always at the top. Is
>> this what's supposed to happen? And anyway why doesn't a graphic made
>> the same size as a stack not actually occupy the same space as a
>> stack?
>>
>
> I'm still figuring this out too, but it seems the card size varies
> depending on the orientation, the status bar (if any) and if there is a
> lower toolbar or not (Android mostly.) You can get the actual dimensions of
> the available space with the "working screenrect" but that won't always
> tell you exactly where 0,0 is. If the status bar is showing, 0,0 will be
> directly beneath it. If it isn't showing, then 0,0 will be at the top left
> of the physical screen.
>
> On Android it gets even worse because of the variety of different system
> toolbars, status bars, screen sizes, etc.
>
> The best bet is to set your graphic to the screenrect in a resizeStack
> handler, and let the engine figure it out. Or easier, if possible, just set
> the backcolor of the card instead of using a graphic.
>
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