Pete wrote:
OK I see what you mean about the formatted versions of height/width. The straight height and width properties don't seem to come anywhere close to working even allowing for menu bar issues (I'm on OS X). They set the height/width to what they were for the previous card opened in the stack, not the current card.
This thread confuses me, since the height and width properties of a card object cannot be set at all.
A card is merely a container for controls inside the stack, allowing multiple sets of controls within a given window. But the card always fills the stack, so changing the size of the stack will change the size of the card, but the size of the card itself cannot be set independently. Indeed, if it could what would happen to the area beyond the edges of a card which is smaller than the window displaying it?
AFAIK, there's only one exception to the general rule that the card size will always be the same as the stack size: if the stack has a menubar defined, its editMenus property is false (the default), and it's currently running under OS X.
Since OS X has a global menu bar, the stack's menubar is scrolled out of view and the size of the stack is automatically cropped by the height of the menubar group.
In that case, the height of the card will be the stack height + the height of the menubar group, and the card width will remain the same as the stack's width.
Aside from that one set of circumstances on OS X, the card size should always reflect the stack size, and even on OS X with a menubar the stack size still governs the card size, the only difference being the height of the menubar group.
So if you want to change the size of the window, just change the size of the stack.
If you don't want to change the size of the window, what is the goal of attempting to change the card size?
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