You can also take a look at NativeGeometry that will handle for you all the geometry management ;)
http://www.nativesoft.fr/nativegeometry Kind Regards, Damien Girard NativeSoft, France. -----Message d'origine----- De : use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] De la part de Robert Brenstein Envoyé : mardi 21 décembre 2010 19:36 À : How to use LiveCode Objet : Re: Geometry Manager On 21.12.2010 at 10:13 Uhr -0800 Peter Haworth apparently wrote: >Just started trying to figure out the geometry manager. It appears >there is already a default for every control to scale it when the >user resizes the window. Problem is, it doesn't happen. If I >resize my window, all the controls on it that fall completely >outside the boundary of the window disappear and any that are >partially outside the window are cut off. > >I'd also add that I tried looking in the LC preferences to see if >there was a setting to enable/disable the geometry manager and, with >glx2 installed, the only preferences that I could get to were the >glx2 ones, not the LC ones. > >Pete Haworth > As others suggested, rolling your own geometry management is recommended for more complex situations. The built-in geometry manager works but to a certain complexity only, and when it breaks, the time and effort invested in setting it up will got to waste. You have indicated that your stack is not simple, so going with the built-in manager is not recommended. Others have already hinted that geometry management is not that difficult to program. Typically, you will have on preOpenCard -- accommodate user-inflicted resizing which occured on another card myGeomMgr (the width of this cd),(the height of this cd) end preOpenCard on resizeStack pNewWidth,pNewHeight -- accommodate user-inflicted resizing on this card myGeomMgr pNewWidth,pNewHeight end resizeStack on myGeomMgr pNewWidth,pNewHeight -- card level geometry manager constant cMargin = 25 # do the magic with bg objects myBgGeomMgr pNewWidth,pNewHeight -- optional # do the magic with card groups myGrpGeomMgr pNewWidth,pNewHeight -- optional # do the magic with cd objects ... -- an example resizing a field set the width of fld kListFld to pNewWidth-2*cMargin set the left of fld kListFld to cMargin ... end myGeomMgr Such a setup allows you to call your geometry management also from scripts, and allows you to pass parameters between scripts, if needed. Normally, one positions/resizes objects relative to card edges and other objects, dealing with width and height of each object. The order of positioning/resizing is often critical. Robert _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
