Alex, Thank you very much! The tips are really helpful.
This is proving really tricky, your solution seems to be cropping off the bottom of the top stack ... also the scroll bar extends the whole window and not only the top stack... I do not have a mac Im on linux so I didnt pick up on this... Thanks again Sam On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Alexander Rakoczy <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 00:09, Sam Saffron <[email protected]> wrote: > > This works .. is there any way I can improve it ? > > Hi Sam! > > Because of the problems I've had with :scroll => true and setting > heights (usually a bad idea with the way Shoes is designed), I would > do something similar this way: > > http://gist.github.com/54431 > > This way, you'll find that by being attached to a window, scrolling > the whole app should work a lot nicer. I tried running this in OSX > and the whole sticky fandango failed on me entirely, so I've since > booted into linux (which I will assume you are using too). In linux, > the mouse scroll wheel works as well, too. > > I keep the style in it's own method call, instead of the stack(styles) > way of doing it, since for some reason you cannot save the stack to an > instance variable if you do so. > > Also, you don't need to save the app object, since self is (almost) > always Shoes.app, and if it isn't, there's a method called 'app' to > get it. > > I hope this helps. > > Alex > > -- > alexander rakoczy >
