OSX High Sierra and Mojave Double Titlebars or Menubars?

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Fri Jul 26 12:27:28 EDT 2019


https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22267

We have a screen recording showing the issue (but not what triggered 
it!) that, when I can get it form the QA person who recorded it, I will 
post to the bug report.

In a strange way it is comforting to know some one else is seeing this 
issue too.


On 7/26/2019 11:38 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> I don't see the problem either but my client does. She can't work with 
> our stacks and we probably shouldn't ship if it's a widespread issue. 
> Her symptoms are identical to what you describe.
>
> Please write up a bug report and if I can get more info from her I'll 
> add to it. We have a hard deadline in about 3 weeks.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On July 26, 2019 9:16:10 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> On 7/26/2019 12:17 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 4:05 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I recall a recent (last year/this year - I think) bug where under OSX
>>>> High Sierra or Mojave you could end up with double titlebars in your
>>>> windows or perhaps it was double menubars?
>>>>
>>>> I have spent a big chunk of time searching the Livecode Quality Center
>>>> and can not find this bug.
>>>>
>>>> Am I delusional, or was there such a bug and if, so can someone 
>>>> point me
>>>> to it?
>>>>
>>> This? https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20923
>>>
>>
>> Yes, thank you. In LiveCode 905rc1 in Standalones on OSX High Sierra we
>> are seeing an odd behavior where -- something happens -- and the mouse
>> position in a window (or a multi-window standalone) is displaced
>> vertically. When you click or drag, LiveCode thinks - just in the window
>> - that the mouse is about 20-30 px above where it currently is.
>>
>> If you move the mouse out of the affected window to another window, it
>> is fine. But if you move it back into the effected window, it is still
>> displaced. If you move the window (aligned by default just under the
>> menubar) down by the displacement amount, the displacement goes away.
>> Move the window back up, the displacement returns.
>>
>> Restart the app and it goes away -- until it occurs again.
>>
>> It is not in our code and happen in different windows at different
>> times. It is definitely an LiveCode bug, but we can not create/discover
>> a recipe for what triggers the bug. It has been suggested that it might
>> be related to the double titlebars bug or to a bug where the LiveCode
>> IDE menubar/pallete cause an similar displacement in the IDE. However,
>> this is in a standalone.
>>
>> It's driving us batty since we can't ship our app with this bug and
>> can't get LiveCode to even consider fixing it until we can produce a
>> test stack with a recipe to reproduce it!
>>
>>
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