macOS window maximization weirdness

[Paul Dupuis]

So , for any one interested, here are screenshots of what is happening. 
The "Autocode" window (stack) and the "Search Sources" window (stack) 
are two example of the windows that do NOT maximize correctly. Many 
other resizable windows do so just fine and windows with both fewer and 
more controls in them work fine. There are also a few more windows that 
do NOT maximize correctly that I did not screen shot.

Below are screen shots (full desktop) of each window maximized on 
Windows 11 (correctly), Sonoma (correctly) and Mojave (incorrectly 
drawn). Again, there windows, on ALL 3 OS versions, can be manually 
resized without problems. It is only when you click on the macOS 
Maximize icon in the title bar. In addition to not drawing correctly on 
Mojave, we also witnessed them not drawing correctly on Monterey. The 
resizeStack handlers have NO platform specific code.

https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-Autocode-Win11-Maximized.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-Autocode-Mojave-Normal.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-Autocode-Mojave-Maximized.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-Autocode-Sonoma-Normal.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-Autocode-Sonoma-Maximized.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-SearchSources-Win11-Maximized.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-SearchSources-Mojave-Normal.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-SearchSources-Mojave-Maximized.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-SearchSources-Sonoma-Normal.png
https://www.researchware.com/livecode/HR457-SearchSources-Sonoma-Maximized.png

Logically, there must be some difference in the resizeStack handlers. I 
have already received the suggested to try having resizeStack send a 
"doResize" (or some handler name) message in time that does the actual 
resize as a work-around. I have not had a chance to try that yet. I 
expect I may OR may not fine that perhaps some use the width and height 
passed as resizeStack message handler parameters while others get the 
width and height of the card. I'll see if there is some commonality on 
how the resizeStack is getting the dimension to resize to between those 
windows that work and those that don't.

However, logically, it certainly seems like there is some OS version 
specific engine bug emerging here since the same code works on Windows 
and some versions of macOS and not others versions of macOS.


On 1/19/2024 9:22 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote:
>
> Paul:
>
> > on certain macOS versions, maximizing the window results in
> > no controls being drawn or most controls being drawn incorrectly.
>
> When drawn incorrectly, are controls the wrong sizes/rects?
> Or content/visual glitches? Of what nature?
>
> Thought it might be worth following up, in case anyone saw similar -
> or might jog my own memory! So many LC/OS issues, details help....
>
> Happy 2024!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry K.
>
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