At 11:28 AM +0100 2002/08/10, Alan Fry wrote: >At 2:14 pm -0700 09/08/02, Ulrich Wienands wrote: >>I'd like - in the "redraw" event handler - to get access to the elements >>of the bounding rectangle of the active window. > >It can be found from 'portRect' which is one of fields in the >window's 'GrafPtr', so you can call "$win->window->portRect". From >this you can get the 'top, bottom, left and right' values of the >window's rectangle (in local co-ordinates). > >If you are in a MacWindow's 'redraw' routine you can probably be >sure the active port is your MacWindow's port. If there is any >doubt, you can always call "SetPort($win->window)" first. It never >does any harm AFAIK. > >>What I eventually want to do is to rescale the contents of a window that >>has its size changed. So my plan would be to use the bounding rectangle >>info in the scaling relations from my drawing objects to the window >>coordinates. > >That's sounds the way to go. I have some scripts which involve >rescaling and repositioning scroll-bars and text blocks as the >window is resized. I can let you have these if it would be helpful.
I'd sure like to see those scripts. Please post them. Thanks! David Seay http://www.mastercall.com/g-s/
