New topic: Cant get text and buttons to stay in place
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=47957> Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message rjwrig Post subject: Cant get text and buttons to stay in placePosted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:25 am Joined: Tue May 10, 2011 7:20 am Posts: 7 I have been trying for the last two days to get the buttons and text I have on a webpage to stay in place when the browser is resized. Looking through pasts post I see two options: 1) use the lock in place options, these do not work. 2) add to a web container than put web container on page. I cannot get this to work either. Can someone please give me a step by step instruction on how to do this? Top Specialised Post subject: Re: Cant get text and buttons to stay in placePosted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:44 am Joined: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:57 am Posts: 565 Location: Sydney Australia When ever I design a WE app I do the following (this is not the only way just a way that works for me); 1/ I use a rectangle as a border around my content. The rectangle is locked top, bottom, left and right to ensure no matter the dimensions of the browser the border remains. I find about 50-75 pixels left to right and 10-25 top to bottom works well and looks attractive. Use a decent minimum size here as scroll bars will still enable the user to move around without it looking squashed up. 2/ Try to separate your content into three columnar zones eg left 1/3 middle 1/3 and right 1/3. Anything on the left 1/3 is locked top and left. Middle 1/3 is locked top left and right. This has the effect of stretching it out (more on this in point 3). right is locked right and top. 3/ Middle 1/3 content I usually place objects like a map viewer. It does not matter i it gets stretched out on a wide screen people can still use the additional space to move around in the map. 4/ Containers can be used to group or reuse common objects but they can also be stretched and the way positioning is set within the container will affect what it will look like. This is useful for middle 1/3 columns where you need a little more flexibility in where the objects sit. You can use the same 1/3 column approaches within the container. 5/ I rarely use horizontal or vertical alignments unless I have a heading at the top or a container I wanted to center. In this case I use top and horizontal. _________________ Regards Chris Musty http://www.specialised.net.au ----------------------------------------------- if date.shortdate >= 4/6/2013 then msgbox "I am using Xojo - YAY!!!" else msgbox "I am still using RS 12r2.1 - BOO!!!" end if Win 8 Pro, Ubuntu 13.04, Mint and Debian(gnome and KDE) AWS for Hosting and TKL for AMI's Top rjwrig Post subject: Re: Cant get text and buttons to stay in placePosted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:56 am Joined: Tue May 10, 2011 7:20 am Posts: 7 Ok so I added a rectangle but the buttons and text already on the page will not lock to it and I cannot set it as a parent? This is all so easy in the regular real studio but seems to be a major pain in the web version. I don't get it. Maybe an idea of layout would help. I am designing an experiment. The first page is consent. It consists of a block of text and two buttons. I would like the text centered at center of screen and have the two buttons locked under the text to either its left or right hand margin depending on the button. Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml [email protected]
