Good idea, though any off-screen stuff sometimes makes changing things later a bit difficult. Like - where is this thing?
Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI <www.glsisinc.com> On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I think this could be easily resolved by changing the engine. On Macs, the > engine should move the menu bar to a location above the actual window, > instead of change the size of the window, which is completely unintuitive. > Backward compatibility be damned I say. It's like rotating the earth every > time I need to make a turn while I am driving! > > Bob > > > On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 12/10/10 5:02 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: >>> In my case the windows have been getting smaller. I'll probably end >>> up doing the same thing, though that's how programs get bloated; not >>> solving the real issues; just using "work-arounds"; real spaghetti >>> code. It is reassuring to know that it's not just me. (smile) >> >> It's almost certainly your menubar. On Mac, the stack shrinks to hide the >> menu group, and puts the menus in the system menu bar instead. That's just >> how it works. >> >> During development, turn off Preview in Menubar in the menu builder. That >> should stop it. After that the menu group will be at the top of the card as >> before. Also, uncheck the destroystack property in the stack inspector, >> there was a bug in the engine that caused stacks with menubars to shrink >> when building standalones if that was turned on in some cases. >> >> Before building a standalone, turn Preview back on. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
