Managing maximized windows on MacOS

[Giovanni]

Hi everybody,
as already said the main problem is that there is no way to intercept the maximization action and to understand if the window is maximized or not.
screenrects or windowBoundingRect are not useful in this case mainly when the maximized window has a maxWidth or maxHeight value lower than the maximum width/height of the screenrect.

Moreover due to the bug #21311 (https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21311 <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21311>) it’s not possible to prevent the windows maximization for the resizable stacks.

So, any other hint about this topic?


> Il giorno 12/nov/2019, alle ore 02:52, Paul McClernan via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> ha scritto:
> 
> I ran into this myself recently. LiveCode sends a resizeStack message when
> you click the maximize "zoom box" button which you can intercept, but
> there's no way to verify that it was the fullscreen zoom button that
> generated the message. It would be nice if LC had the opposite of it's
> iconifyStack
> / uniconifyStack messages for maximize, maybe "fullscreenify" or something
> like that. It would also be nice if it played nice with LiveCode's
> non-native fullScreen modes, as it is now the stack automatically gets
> resized to the current screen's sized putting all the contents to the upper
> left (0,0) origin point.
> I have played around a bit with a separate LiveCode builder implementation
> macOS native fullscreen that seems to behave a bit differently, if you lock
> the resizable attributes it centers your stack on the screen without the
> resizing. It's part of this LCB library here:
> https://github.com/PaulMcClernan/LiveCode-LCB-macOSTools
> 
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 1:59 PM Giovanni via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>> from MacOS Mojave and on when you maximize a window (clicking on “+”
>> button on windows main bar) the system maximize the window on the entire
>> screen hiding all the system bars and moving the window on a different
>> “virtual” space.
>> 
>> Is there a way using LC to manage this window status?
>> It’s possible to detect the window maximization (I.E. in a message) and
>> manage the actions to activate when the window goes to this status or go
>> back to the normal status?
>> 
>> Thank you in advance for your tips!
>> 
>> Regards
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