--- In [email protected], "brucexs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > but the parent bar can have any position, correct?
>
> Yes.
> >
> > can the parent bar extend horizontally while the locked bar
> extends vertically?
>
> Yes.  Basically, the moving algorithm would only looking at the
top-
> left corner of the dependent bar relative to the "anchor point"
> specified on the parent bar.

Sorry, not the "top-left" corner but rather the specified point on
the dependent bar.


>
> > >
> >
> > If Bar3 is locked and I move bar1 then Bar3 moves, correct?
>
> If Bar1 is the parent then yes, as long as Bar 3 has been assigned
> the PowerPro bar position of locked or floating.  The difference
is
> that a floating bar can still be moved by click-drag; a locked bar
> would only move when its parent did.
> >
> > > But on thinking about it, I suppose I could interpret a loop
as
> > > saying either bar is the master, >
> > Sounds good to me.
>
> A challenge with this is that you would have to specify the
relative
> positions in two different ways, one way of bar a (top-left)
> relative to (parent) bar b anchor, and then the other way of bar b
> (top-left) relative to (parent) bar a anchor.  But both ways would
> have to result in the same relative positioning.  So you would
have
> to do a bit of work if you wanted either bar to control the
other. 
> I cannot think of any other reasonable way to do this, where
> reasonable means not too much work for me and not too much work
for
> the user.  But I am open to suggestions.
>
>
>
> >
>






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