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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Hypercard 2.0 - it won't work..(ok, I need help)
Message-ID: <17751@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 90 17:29:28 GMT
References: <38835@ut-emx.uucp> <46096@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <46096@apple.Apple.COM> jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:
>
>This is very strange.  One possibility is that someone set the loc of the
>card window to a bizarre value.  HyperCard 2.0 saves the location of
>the card window in a stack whenever it changes, and when that stack is
>opened again, the card window is moved to the saved location.  It's
>pretty smart about monitor size, but if, on a screen that's 512x342,
>just as yours is, if the loc of the card window is set to 10000,10000,
>then that's where the card window will go, and that's where it will
>go the next time that stack is opened on a screen of the same size.
>
>Try typing 'set the loc of card window to 0,0' and then pressing return.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Kevin Calhoun
>HyperCard Engineer
>Apple Computer, Inc.

This sounds like a bug to me. HIN #6 states something like:

        "When reopening a movable window, check its saved 
	position.  If the window is in a position to which the user could
	have dragged it, then leave it there.  If the window can be zoomed
	and was in the zoomed state when it was last closed, put it in the
	zoomed state again.  (Note that the current and previous zoomed states
	are not necessarily the same, since the window may be reopened on a
	different monitor.)  If the window is not in a position to which the
	user could have dragged it, then it must be relocated, so use the
	default location.  However, do not automatically use the default size
	when using the default location; if the entire window would be visible
	using the default location and stored size, then use the stored size."

Why is it that Apple ignores its own rules.




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