Change in behavior of minHeight property

[Peter Haworth]

I found the same change between 5.5.4 and 6.5.1.

Hard to say if this this is a bug in the software.  However, IMHO, it's a
serious bug in the release notes for 6.5.x.  Changes in legacy behavior
whether as the result of a bug fix or a whim on someone's part should be
very clearly and unmistakenly documented in the release notes.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> In all versions of LC and Rev prior to 6.5, setting the minHeight of a
> stack, when the stack's height was smaller than the new minHeight, resulted
> in the stack being resized to the new minHeight. This behavior changed in
> 6.5. Now setting the minHeight/Width of a stack has no effect on the size
> of the stack. This bit me recently in a sample stack that I send out with
> LiveCode University, which resizes itself when the user clicks a button.
> (The same thing happens with the minWidth, BTW.)
>
> I went to the Dictionary to read up on this behavior, and it seems that
> the minHeight, as documented, is only supposed to restrict the ability of
> the user to resize below the set value. It does not restrict the ability to
> set the dimensions of the stack via scripting.
>
> So the question: is this change in behavior a bug? The new behavior seems
> more in line with the documentation, still, it broke my older stack. I'll
> create a bug report if others think it's warranted.
>
> Can others verify?
>
> Regards,
>
> Devin
>
>
> Devin Asay
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