Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-17 Thread Scott Rossi
Shameless Plug: If you find yourself doing this kind of thing a lot, I have a visual stack management plugin called tmNavigator that handles this. It shows a resizable thumbnail view of all stacks open your desktop and enables you to drag them around the screen, across multiple monitors. http://t

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-17 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Dec 16, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > If I then close the laptop window, come back to work, hook up the external > moitor again and open a stack that had been open before when just using the > laptop monitor, the location of the new window is partially off screen! That > means the t

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-17 Thread Ray
Paul this is working out very well. Actually, both of these ideas work equally well. Thanks! On 12/17/2015 9:00 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: On 12/16/2015 8:05 PM, Ray wrote: Paul - excellent idea and thanks for this suggestion. There's just one pitfall in my situation. I'm doing this: put

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-17 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 12/16/2015 8:05 PM, Ray wrote: > Paul - excellent idea and thanks for this suggestion. There's just > one pitfall in my situation. I'm doing this: > >put url serverStackPath into stackData >open file localStackPath for binary write >write stackData to file localStackPath >close

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Ray, Another approach you could take: -- download the stack go invisible url serverStackPath put the name of this stack into tStack -- set the rect while stack is still hidden set the rect of tStack to the LastRect of tStack -- make it visible show tStack --

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Ray
Paul - excellent idea and thanks for this suggestion. There's just one pitfall in my situation. I'm doing this: put url serverStackPath into stackData open file localStackPath for binary write write stackData to file localStackPath close file localStackPath I've now created the 'v

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 12/16/2015 7:40 PM, Ray wrote: > So does anybody know how to set the default new stack size Livecode > will use the next time a new stack is created, either by the menu > choice or by simply opening a new disk file, writing to it and closing > it? See the entry for "templateStack" in the dictio

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Ray
Bob - interesting situation. I work with two monitors, also, but they' always connected so I haven't experienced this. On a related note however, I've discovered that reading a stack's data on a remote server and then recreating the stack on my local, populating it with the data I just read,

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
By which I mean even palettes. Bob S On Dec 16, 2015, at 15:01 , Bob Sneidar mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote: and I mean ALL WINDOWS in LC are unresponsive! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
Speaking of which, I have been having a problem for some time now. I have two monitors. I usually run LC on the large monitor, but if I have to leave for a job, I disaonnect the external large monitor after which everything rearranges itself on the laptop monitor. All well and good. But then I

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Ray
Scott thanks again. I just uninstalled 7.0.5 and installed 7.1.1 and resolved this issue. I might have also been able to resolve it re-installing 7.0.5. I should have tried this on another system first. I thought mine was pretty stable but I guess things can creep in from time to time. Th

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Ray
Thanks Scott - I was just going to add that I can NOT repeat this on my laptop which is also running Livecode 7.0.5 and Windows 8.1 so there's obviously something going on with my desktop 8.1 system. If anybody has any ideas please share them. Sorry for the false alarm regarding Livecode. O

Re: Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Scott Rossi
You might want to check with a more recent version to confirm since 7.0.5 is several versions old (the LC guys announced 7.1.1 today). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 12/16/15, 12:02 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ray" wrote: >I've been wrestling with t

Stacks Losing their Size and Location

2015-12-16 Thread Ray
I've been wrestling with this in 7.0.5 for a while. Here it is distilled and the simplest way to repeat it: on mouseUp answer the rect of this stack set the decorations of this stack to empty answer the rect of this stack -- we're fine here (same rect) s