RE: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-05 Thread Ralph DiMola
To: LiveCode Mail List Subject: Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties The group can always clip the objects within it. If you give the group margins and do the math to scale the object/s within to stay within the inner rect, you can maintain the objects' graphic effects. If you don't want

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ralph DiMola wrote: > This brings up an issue I just discovered yesterday. I resize several > controls in a group. The group auto resizes(lock lock true) to the > max x/y extents of all objects. It seems that there is a 4 pixel > margin right/top/right/bottom. The group is 8 Pixels taller and

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-05 Thread Devin Asay
> On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > On February 5, 2016 at 6:52:26 AM, Richard Gaskin > (ambassa...@fourthworld.com) wrote: > If groups don't currently adjust to allow for changes in the graphic > effects

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
On February 5, 2016 at 6:52:26 AM, Richard Gaskin (ambassa...@fourthworld.com) wrote: If groups don't currently adjust to allow for changes in the graphic effects of contained objects IMO this would be a bug worth submitting. yes, that is the problem Can

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
OK… I add my two cents on the bug report. Agreed, it *is* a bug and not an enhancement request. It gets worse if the “child” field is dynamically re-sized based on the text being applied. Locking the group size/location does not work. BR On February 5, 2016 at 9:01:39 AM, Devin Asay

Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Am I the only one who frequently wishes that groups could be made as a kind of class or abstraction? By this I mean, I want to establish a group that would, by default, take the rect of the card (dynamically if it were resized) have no border or any graphical properties of any kind as an

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

2016-02-04 Thread Scott Rossi
The group can always clip the objects within it. If you give the group margins and do the math to scale the object/s within to stay within the inner rect, you can maintain the objects' graphic effects. If you don't want to do the math and move the contained objects independently of the group, you