the menuBar and the EditMenus

[J. Landman Gay]

On 4/11/14, 12:22 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> I think there may be a number of kinds of app where the relation
> between a window and the objects within it should be constant across
> platforms (for example to show a particularly shaped image which
> reaches the edges of the stack window all around

Just for the record, nothing really changes when the stack scrolls up on 
a Mac. The "visible" content rect stays the same; on Windows, it is the 
area between the bottom of the menu bar and the bottom of the stack. 
It's the same on a Mac, except that the area of the menu bar is hidden. 
Coordinates do not change, so if the equations you're using rely on 
screen coordinates they will still work; the upper left of the visible 
area on Windows is the same as the upper left of the visible area on Mac 
(usually about 0,27). The 0,0 coordinate on any platform is not 
available when there is a menu, because it is occupied by the menu group 
on all platforms.

You have a workaround, so there are two ways to do it. But as far as 
usability goes, nothing is different. Dr Raney always advised that we 
should create the menu bar first and position all objects relative to 
that. That way, everything just works.

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