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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: <17766@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 90 01:14:23 GMT
References: <38835@ut-emx.uucp> <46096@apple.Apple.COM> <17751@unix.SRI.COM> <46189@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <46189@apple.Apple.COM> jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:

>>Why is it that Apple ignores its own rules.

I should have put a smilely in there, sorry.

>
>In this particular case, if HyperCard 2.0 followed the guidelines to the
>letter, you could never view a standard-sized stack (512x342) at its full
>size on a 9" monitor, because the window would not be in a position "to
>which the user could have dragged it"!  (The titlebar would not be visible.)
>
>In general, with 2.0 we attempted to bring HyperCard into better conformance
>with the Human Interface guidelines.  I hope we succeeded.

Your are right about the title bar but if the window is totally out of
view with any monitors, then UPON STARTUP Hypercard should at least bring
it into view. Now I know that the user might have done that with hypertalk
to keep the window out of view. Does hypercard check to see if the window
is in an active area of the desktop? For example, if I have two monitors and I
move the window off the main monitor on the the second and quit Hypercard.
Now if I run that stack on another machine without two monitors, will 
hypercard put the window back on the main screen or does it leave it where the 
other monitor was?


>If you believe that there's a bug in the way we handle windows, please
>submit a bug report to SNOWBUG@applelink.apple.com.

I don't think I have the athority to say whether or not that its a bug. 

>
>Kevin Calhoun
>HyperCard Engineer
>Apple Computer, Inc.

P.S. Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like I was apple bashing.




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