Thank you for your answer, but I do not understand it.
The code comes from the docs / I set both values to 100 just in case, but I get the exception.
Also, I do not say that I only have one screen (monitor) actually, connected to my MacBook Pro.
At last, this crash too in Windows XP in both the 2015r1 generated application and Xojo 2013r4.1 (last IDE runing on Windows XP).
I ran Windows XP in VirtualBox / El Capitan .6.
No, I forgot nothing. I took the example in Xojo 2016r4.1 language reference: Window.Top.
Your code above works fine. Thank you.
Dim myBounds As New Realbasic.Rect
myBounds.Left = Screen(0).Width - (Me.Width + 2)
myBounds.Top = Screen(0).AvailableTop // Screen(0).Height - (Me.Height + 2)
myBounds.Height = Self.Height
myBounds.Width = Self.Width
Self.Bounds = myBounds
I get the window at Right/top of the window: nice !
I think I know why I was reluctent to use Window.Bounds recently.
If you look at your original post, you will see that the code snippet is missing the “myBounds.Height” and “myBounds.Width” lines… Easy mistake to make… Been there, done that, just happy that it is working for you now…
Dim myBounds As New Realbasic.Rect
myBounds.Left = 100
myBounds.Top = Screen(0).AvailableTop
Self.Bounds = myBounds[/quote]
[quote=306682:@Emile Schwarz]
Dim myBounds As New Realbasic.Rect
myBounds.Left = Screen(0).Width - (Me.Width + 2)
myBounds.Top = Screen(0).AvailableTop // Screen(0).Height - (Me.Height + 2)
myBounds.Height = Self.Height
myBounds.Width = Self.Width
Self.Bounds = myBounds[/quote]
While the code snippet might have come from the documentation, the two code snippets, quoted above, are not identical… That is all we are saying… The first snippet, in your original post, is missing the .Width and .Height properties and that is what was causing the original error… The second snippet you posted has those properties and is working for you…
http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/Window.Bounds - hasnt changed since Feb 2015 and includes top left width & height
Dim myBounds As New Realbasic.Rect
myBounds.Left = 100
myBounds.Top = 100
myBounds.Height = Self.Height
myBounds.Width = Self.Width
Self.Bounds = myBounds
get an eye in Xojo 2016 4.1, type Window.Top and watch carefully the example. That is where I came from (in fact, I started at the same doc with Xojo 2015r1). I checked 2016r4.1 before asking here.
Why looking at Window.Top ? Just because I wanted to place the window at the top of the screen. Also, the word Bounds escape to my mind at the moment.
All:
you were right.
All I wanted to say was I falled in a trap following the documentation.
Also: It is not an easy task to maintain a documentation 100% correct. But as I wrote elsewhere, I dance on this waltz for 20 years (in may I think). It is a bit boring to always fall into traps (worst: sometimes I fall more than once in the same trap).
In REALbasic 1.0, the documentation was small enough for me to print it and add data to pages, corrections, etc. It is not possible anymore to do that.