ScreenRect bug or not

[Richard Gaskin]

Terence Heaford wrote:

 > In my case the working screenRect returned 0,22,1680,1046
 >
 > if I add 22 to item 2 for 0,44,1680,1046 it seems to work correctly
 >
 > Having measured the screen with Apples screen grab the point directly
 > below the OS X menubar is 22 and not 44.
 >
 > Surely LC should return the correct co-ordinate for Mac and not rely
 > on me converting a Windows co-ordinate?

Of course not.  It might be a bug, but before we go there we can notice 
that difference sounds suspiciously like the height of the Mac OS title bar.

In all xTalks "the rect" of a stack refers only to its content region.

In older xTalks (and older versions of LC) proper window placement 
required us to hard-wire values for the Mac title bar, and query the Win 
registry for that platform, and adjust accordingly.

LiveCode now does this for us with "the effective rect", which accounts 
for the platform-specific window trimmings (title bar, borders, etc.).

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