This isn't right on topic but the stack height on desktop doesn't include the menu bar which really surprised me. Pete
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:43 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 2/14/12 11:54 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > >> I read that the size of the screen available to a LC stack on the >> iPad is 1024 x 768, so I made a stack that big. I then placed a >> graphic on the screen which was intended to provide a black >> background: I made this 1024 x 768 as well, and I set its top corners >> to 0,0. Oddly a chunk of white showed at the bottom of the window, >> and if I moved my graphic down 24 pixels, the chunk of white showed >> at the top. So the sizes aren't the same. If I show the stack on the >> simulator, I get the same effect, i.e. not all the screen is black, >> but instead a 24-pixel chunk of white appears, always at the top. Is >> this what's supposed to happen? And anyway why doesn't a graphic made >> the same size as a stack not actually occupy the same space as a >> stack? >> > > I'm still figuring this out too, but it seems the card size varies > depending on the orientation, the status bar (if any) and if there is a > lower toolbar or not (Android mostly.) You can get the actual dimensions of > the available space with the "working screenrect" but that won't always > tell you exactly where 0,0 is. If the status bar is showing, 0,0 will be > directly beneath it. If it isn't showing, then 0,0 will be at the top left > of the physical screen. > > On Android it gets even worse because of the variety of different system > toolbars, status bars, screen sizes, etc. > > The best bet is to set your graphic to the screenrect in a resizeStack > handler, and let the engine figure it out. Or easier, if possible, just set > the backcolor of the card instead of using a graphic. > > -- > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.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
