use-livecode Digest, Vol 181, Issue 33

[Mark Wieder]

On 10/24/2018 02:10 PM, Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Klaus... but I'm sure we all agree this is totally non-intuitive.  However, using this call in my openStack script does two negative things:
> 
> 1) least important but somewhat self-defeating to my "goal", this now opens the Project Browser right on top of my app in some default height and width.  As a result I have to move it over to the side and adjust the size.  If I just open the Project Browser via the LC tools, it opens in the same position and size as to the last saved stack.
> 
> 2) more importantly, after allowing this code to execute within my app, I went to create my standalone version and found that all of the Saved Standalone Application Settings were GONE! and the setting had reverted back to the default ones for a brand-new stack.  Luckily, by not saving the stack at that point and commenting out that call, the settings came back .. whew!

I'm probably misunderstanding what you're trying to do, but a couple of 
observations:

1. if you open the PB and then set the loc of it, both in your openStack 
(or preOpenStack) handler, then the browser should appear where you tell 
it to.

2. trying to do this in a standalone app is bound to fail. The PB is 
part if the LiveCode IDE, and thus a separate application from your 
standalone. If you really need to launch the browser in the IDE then 
you'll need to set up a means of communication between the two. Most 
probably socket communication via a plugin stack, but ymmv.

-- 
  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com