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- From: ATOMIKA@AppleLink.Apple.COM (ATOMIKA Analysetechnik GmbH,DE,IDV)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: Vanishing Scrollbars
- Message-ID: <724360690.7082519@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 18:53:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Organization: AppleLink Gateway
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- Recently I stepped over a problem with the defined size of windows. My question
- is: Bug or feature?
-
- Our app defines several Windows. As long as the window size from the View is
- smaller than the screen thay are displayed on, everything works fine. But if
- the screen is smaller than the window, weird things happen. I detected that
- problem on a PB160. It has 640x400 pixels instead of 640x480 that the 13"
- monitor has. Most resizable windows did not show their horizontal scrollbar. It
- seems that the window is drawn smaller but the software still assumes its
- original size and thus the scrollbars and the drawing are out of synch.
-
- We resize most windows when they are opened through data from the document to a
- different size so we may define them in a smaller size. We use the information
- of the window size mainly for "ConstrainWindowSize" and are able to live with
- that problem.
-
- BUT:
- Is that weird behavior really a feature and do we have to define the windows to
- the smallest screen size we want to run on? Or is it a bug, that MacApp does
- not keep the Scroller and the Window in synch when the screen is too small?
-
- Christian Scholze
- ATOMIKA Analysetechnik GmbH
- Munich, Germany
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-