Window decorations and the effective rect issue

[Richard Gaskin]

Paul Dupuis wrote:
 > However, I have run into a puzzler. Under Windows 8 (and Win 7) when I
 > set the effective rect of a stack to 0,0,x,y or set the effective
 > topLeft of a stack to 0,0, that stack is NOT taking into account the
 > wider window borders of Windows 7 and 8 and is positioning the stack
 > with part of its borders off screen - it is like the stack thinks it's
 > window borders were the thinner ones back under Windows 2000 or XP!
 >
 > This only occur with old stacks in the application - i.e. stacks
 > originally migrated from HyperCard > SuperCard > Metacard >Revolution.
 > If I create a new "Untitled 1" substack in the old legacy mainstack
 > and set it's effective topLeft to 0,0, it renders exactly as expected.

On Ubuntu difference there is a meaningless (though seemingly 
non-random) difference between a stack's "rect" and its "effective rect":
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15097>

Maybe whatever made "effective rect" broken on Linux is related to what 
you're seeing in Windows?

Possibly not, though:  the Linux bug is evident with all stacks, old or new.

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