gotcha, will give it a shot, thanks so much ... btw if you are a member on SO you can post an answer here and get 25 points :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489558/in-shoes-how-do-i-dock-a-stack-to-the-bottom-of-the-window
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alexander Rakoczy <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Sam, > No problem! > > Essentially, the bottom stack is attached to the window, so it's just > covering it up. Try putting on a margin-bottom to the top stack to > give it some room at the bottom. > > Alex > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 18:31, Sam Saffron <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > alexander rakoczy >
