--- In [email protected], "brucexs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Sheri" <sherip99@> wrote: > > > > I'm having some trouble with automatically positioning a floating > > bar. The bar initially has a right caption position. It is > > autoshown upon use in a script of > > > > cl.import(kbfile) > > cl.show(bname) > > > > (where kbfile is an ini file for a bar named bname). > > > > What I want to do is change the bar to floating, but have its > > initial position be unchanged. > > > > I tried adding: > > > > local myrec=win.getrect(bname) > > > > win.getrect is documented as returning left top right bottom > > whereas > > cl.setrect is documented as needing cl, top, left, right, bottom > > > Doc is wrong. setrect uses left top right bottom too. > > You may have to close bar, reset to float and pos, then show bar. > > > > So I tried manipulating myrec to look like what cl.setrect uses > > but that didn't work. If I used Any idea what I'm doing wrong? > > > No How much does the bar move in the second case? what does > win.getrect return before and change in pos >
I neglected to mention the ini file format sets horizontal and vertical offsets. Apparently they are not accounted for by win.getrect. I found that it works if I name those in NewProperties (same offset figures that are in the ini file with RightCaption) local myrec=win.getrect(bname) cl.NewProperties(bname, "Format1=Position: Floating HOffset: -40 VOffset: 32") win.setrect(bname, myrec) in order to use cl.setrect it needs: cl.setrect(bname, word(myrec, 1, " "), word(myrec, 2, " "), word(myrec, 3, " "), word(myrec, 4, " ")) No need to close and reshow the bar with either of the setrect alternatives. Regards, Sheri
