Re: hide the menu

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 27 Jan 2004, at 09:37, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

> discuss-gnustep-bounces+lars.sonchocky-helldorf=bbdo- 
> interone.de@gnu.org
> wrote on 26.01.2004 22:05:48:
>
> > simply position the menu off-screen using a defaults entry. I can't  
> > help
>
> > you with the  specifics of how to do this but I know others use it
> > routinely and that it works fine.
>
> Btw. I think this little trick is a rather nasty "feature" of GNUstep:

And NeXTstep, OPENSTEP, and MacOS-X

> What besides the purpose to position a menu willingly off-screen is  
> this
> intended for?

The idea is that the position of menus for an application is saved so  
that,
the next time you run your application, the menus appear where you left
them.  The purpose of the defaults system is to save just this sort of
user specific information.

>  I see only problems arise from this: What if an user
> positions the menu of an app accidentally off-screen (for instance by
> reducing the screen resolution)?

There is a different set of menu location defaults for each screen  
resolution.

> Off course this can be fixed by fixing
> the defaults entry, but I think this is _not_ userfriendly (since this
> solution doesn't occur to the "victim" naturally). I think menus that  
> got
> possitioned off-screen should return to an on-screen location the next
> time the .app is launched.

But not if it's deliberately positioned off screen by the user.
If it's just a screen resolution change this should not be a problem  
because
the saved position for the screen resolution should be used, and if  
there is
no saved position, the menu should appear in the top left corner anyway.