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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Show/Hide menubar question
Message-ID: <45586@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 90 22:05:34 GMT
References: <1990Oct11.193221.13578@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Oct11.193221.13578@midway.uchicago.edu>
chh9@quads.uchicago.edu (Conrad Halton Halling) writes:
>                                [...] Is there a way to determine when the
>screen is larger than the standard SE size so I can hide the menubar on an
>SE but not on a Mac II?

There are a couple of ways to do this. First of all, the function
"the screenRect" returns the rect of the main monitor (the one with
the menubar on it), and you can check whether this is the SE/Plus
screen rect (0,0,512,342). The second method is to check the position
of the card window to see whether part is obscured by the menu bar;
for instance,

  on openStack
    if the top of card window < 20 then hide menubar
  end openStack

The latter method is probably preferable, since with HyperCard 2.0,
it's possible to have card sizes larger than the Plus/SE monitor,
and stacks remember their last screen positions (so a stack might
show up even on a large monitor with part of the card window hidden
under the menu bar).

You can also get fancy: compare the size of card window to the
screenRect, and move the window down (instead of hiding the menu
bar) if there's room.
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