fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

[Richard Gaskin]

Jacque wrote:
 > Android does receive orientationChanged messages. I've been tinkering
 > with Swami's test stack, and dynamic positioning (no fullscreenMode)
 > works fine with some effort.

Is there a benefit to responding to orientationChanged instead of 
resizeStack?

As long as both messages are sent it may not matter, but that's the 
thing I'm unclear on: what does orientationChanged tell us on a mobile 
device that resizeStack doesn't?  When is one sent without the other 
sent immediately after?


Brian wrote:
 > I did figure out that within preOpenCard, the reported stack rect is
 > still the dimensions of the saved stack file (at least on iOS).

That makes sense in a way, in that preOpenCard is sent before rendering 
and on mobile devices the stack is automatically resized, seemingly at 
the start of the rendering queue.

Still, it seems unintuitive.  Is there a reason preOpenCard couldn't be 
sent after the stack is resized but before the rendering of the content 
region occurs?

FWIW I find resizeStack works well there too, apparently sent within the 
order of things where preOpenCard is expected here, after the stack is 
resized but before the user sees the rendering result.

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