Thanks Jacque. I figure out most of it but hadn't thought about the ratio idea.
I feel like I'm pretty much duplicating what the GM does except for the ability to position controls relative to other controls. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:54 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 8/31/12 12:41 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> I'll write my >> own resize stack handler to take care of it. >> >> Any pointers as to good techniques to do this? I have 1 control that >> needs >> to be scaled horizontally and vertically and a couple of others that need >> to be re-positioned. >> > > With only three controls it should be easy. The basic idea is to just go > through everything that needs changing, calculate either the new rectangle > or the new location, and set it. It's purely grunt work, tedious but not > hard. > > For the most flexibility, use ratios when resizing. I usually figure out > what the ratio is for a control in my original layout and then use that for > the calcuation. I.e., if a field should be a third of the vertical size of > the card, then the ratio is .33. Multiply the card height by .33 and put > appropriate values into the other three points of the rectangle; then set > the rect. It all depends on your layout. Sometimes the width will remain > constant, sometimes not. Sometimes you always want the left at 0, sometimes > not. > > Repositioning works similarly. You can either change the topleft, or the > location, or some other point, or you can use a ratio to calculate the new > position (one-third of the way from top, for example) and set the topleft > to that. Or set the left to the left of another object, or use any other > reference that should line up. > > I suppose that's vague enough to confuse. :) > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > 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<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
