Hi Phil, That's correct, although as Craig pointed out you can run the startup handler in the IDE from the message box, which I did on his suggestion as a test.
Turns out that, when startup is run in the IDE, setting the stack rect works as I would expect, the size and position are modified correctly. But in a standalone, the stack size is set but not its position. So the startup handler obviously runs, but setting the stack rect doesn't have the side-effect of setting the loc. The same line in a preopenstack handler does work correctly however, so it is specifically in a standalone's startup handler that this issue appears to manifest. Anyway I have now bug-reported it. Martin On 24/03/14 17:51, Phil Davis wrote: > If I remember correctly, the startup message isn't available to our > stacks in the IDE. Otherwise (in standalones) it should be. > > Phil Davis > > > On 3/24/14, 7:21 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: >> This: >> >> on startup >> set the rect of this stack to "100,100,300,300" >> end startup >> >> Does not seem to work in version 6.6 (at least for me, on Linux) >> >> Obviously the idea is to set the initial position of an application >> window. >> >> What happens is that the window is correctly sized to 200 * 200 px, but >> the specified position on screen is not honoured. The stack window may >> open centered or displaced by whatever other windows are already open. >> Setting the loc doesn't seem to work either. >> >> This worked for me in 6.5.2 and earlier. >> >> I'm thinking this is a bug, does anyone else have any insight on this? >> >> Martin _______________________________________________ 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
