screen math, stacks, fields, and effective screenRect

[Paul Hibbert]

It depends if your stack has a Stack Menu or not, try…

  put (the top of this stack) - (the effective top of this stack) -- With no Stack Menu =22 with a Stack Menu = 0

Paul


> On Jan 17, 2015, at 5:40 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> 
>> The difference you're seeing is likely due to the height of the stack
>> including its titlebar versus the height of the card region only of the
>> stack.
>> 
>> You might try seeing the entries in the dictionary for localLoc and
>> globalLoc, used for converting global positions to local, and vice versa.
>> 
> 
> Those are definitely what I needed.
> 
> But I'm still baffled by things like the effective top being a smaller
> number (higher on the screen) than the top.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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