On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 02:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> The SuperCard package shipped with a handy example app called > SampleDraw, > elements of which are useful to most apps. One of the useful things > about > SC's backgrounds being independent of the window is that they > effectively > form a window "pane", making printing large backgrounds a one-liner and > other niceties. > > Most of those I've gotten around, but find my pre-coffee self stumped on > this one: > > How do you _interactively_ create an object in a background? > > That is, without hiding the scroll bars. :) > > There have been many good tips here recently for creating objects in > backgrounds, but if memory serves none of them addressed the case of a > drawing application, in which the user creates objects interactively and > manipulates them with the pointer tool. > > If we use a background with scrollbars, and use a non-selectable > graphic as > the first object in that group to serve as a pane (defining the > scrollable > area) we're off to a good start as far as letting the user maniplate > objects. But to make new ones by dragging them out with the graphic > tool? > Hmmm.... I have never found a way around this. What I ended up doing was when the user wanted a rect, or whatever, I just drew one for them and allowed them to size and move it. Good question. -Mark Talluto _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
