Stack Height/Menubar

[Terence Heaford]

This all basically means you can’t place anything in the bottom 22 of the card.

Terry


> On 15 Nov 2018, at 15:03, Terence Heaford via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> This post is regard the use of Livecode on MacOS(LC 9.0.1)
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> When you set the height of this stack to 800 (for example)
> 
> The height of this card in the property inspector is 822 and is also returned as 822 in script. 
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> This seems to be as a result of the menubar position on none mac systems.
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> I have "set as stack menubar" checked in Menu Builder
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> When displayed on screen the card displays with a height of 822 not 800 even though the menubar is not showing in the window.
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> If you then position say a button for example within the lower 22 of the card remnants of the button can be seen on other cards when you go to another card.
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> How is this supposed to be dealt with in Livecode.
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> It all seems rather confusing to me.
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> It is usual on a Mac to have a 20 border to the edge of windows etc. As stated above if you do this then parts of the buttons
> for some reason show on other cards (22 - 20).
> 
> Livecode should simply identify you are on a Mac and the 22 for the menubar should be dealt with in Livecode code rather than leaving it
> to the scripter to sort out.
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> On a Mac if you set the stack height to 800 then the card should default to 800.
> 
> Why can’t the menubar be stored by some other means?
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> End of part rant.
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> Thanks
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> Terry
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