Yes, indeed, and the equivalent sort of thing to the Windows taskbar in
the XFCE environment
on Linux can be resized to cover the whole screen!
I know as my computers in my school have "Peekaboo" taskbars that take
up about 40% of the screen
(i.e. they pop in and out of the bottom of the screen) with launchers
for some 60 EFL programs I have authored for EFL (English as a Fizziy
Language).
But, fools or not, one cannot plan for all eventualities . . . anymore
than a shoe factory
can make shoes in giant sizes on the off-chance that Finn MacCool will
pop in to buy
hisself some baffies!
Richmond.
On 5/6/2018 12:14 pm, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote:
" Windows taskbar can be resize to take up half the
primary screen by the user (we have NOT had any one do that - YET)"
Which reminds me of 3 variants of Murphy's law :-
Nothing can be made foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Nothing is foolproof for a capable fool.
Lagi
On 4 June 2018 at 20:51, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Okay, we're making progress:
2 people (Paul and Ralph) think having "the [effective] [working]
screenLoc" might be a useful addition for the language for the likely
effort to add it
2 people (Bob and Jacqueline) think that it is simple enough (which it
is) to write your own function for this it is not worth the effort to
add to the engine
So far we have a tie.
And, Jacqueline, screen resolutions can be changed dynamically on
Windows (can't remember off the top of my head if the same is true for
OSX). This changes the screenLoc. We also have customers who use
multiple monitors, unplug them abruptly, change screen resolutions
dynamically (say to connect to a projector) and so on, so are trying to
make use of LC features like the desktopChanged message to recheck
screen sizes and adjust windows in our app accordingly or re-position
windows or recenter dialogs when a monitor is removed suddenly. Some
user have "fat" taskbars (a lot of open stuff on them since the Windows
toolbar can be resized) and the center of the working screen area is
decidedly not the center of the current resolution of the primary
monitor. In fact, the Windows taskbar can be resize to take up half the
primary screen by the user (we have NOT had any one do that - YET)
On 6/4/2018 12:07 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
Yes, that is why I said (read below) that if others did not think there
should be an effective and/or working key word for the screenLoc
function, I would roll my own based on the screenRect function. I was
asking whether other think the screenLoc function should or should not
have these keywords.
On 6/4/2018 11:55 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Seems like you could subtract item 1 from item 3 and item 2 from item 4
of the effective screenRect to get what you need.
Bob S
On Jun 4, 2018, at 08:08 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I posted the question below and got no responses so I thought I would
try again.
I noticed that screenLoc has no effective or working keywords
associated
with it in LC9 or earlier. It seems to me that it should and that if it
has been done for the screenRect(s), it should be a small enhancement
to
add them to the screenLoc
Do others agree? If so I will submit and enhancement entry to the
quality center. if not, I'll drop this discussion thread and roll my
own
function based on the screenRect function.
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