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On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:19 AM, MisterX wrote:
you're not obliged to be in drawing mode... You can simulate it with a cursor and a moving/resizing rect or graphic (with a marquee pattern).
Except that I want to support nearly all of the graphics shapes -- rects, roundRects, ovals, curves, etc. -- and this would be substantially more work, possibly negating the value of doing this at all.
Then you select what falls in the "selection" by intersection or inclusion... Im not sure i'd use a group rather than a simple rect graphic (simpler)...
Except that the group does the work of handling scrolling for you. The group fills virtually the entire window (except where the toolbar is) - -- so there would be no value in using a rect.
The group is not marked as opaque, currently has no objects within it (it is an empty group), is set to cantSelect, has both scrollbars, is visible, and covers all but a small part of the window, where I am dragging a palette along with the window (as a toolbar -- not a perfect solution, of course, but the best I've come up with so far given Rev's feature set in terms of the drawing tools).
im lost here... What does the group do? Are you supposed to scroll when dragging beyond the edge?
Not necessarily (though that's not a particularly bad idea); I'm creating a custom report layout editor to be included with a commercial software product, and would like to be able to scroll larger report layouts rather than splitting them into separate windows. I am now realizing various issues with my current implementation (which uses separate windows for each section -- this isn't the problem I'm trying to solve, but I'd like to fix it anyway), and in considering starting over, I'd like to get this done right this time, including a scrolling, resizing window representing the report layout. I want it to act like a drawing program, to make life a little easier for the end users.
And looking at the reports product which has been brought up on this list previously:
1. I want to distribute the editor with the product, which would seemingly require a royalty fee (or at least an expensive custom version purchase), which I'm trying to avoid.
2. The product will gather information from a database, and I want the layouts stored on the database server itself, rather than files on a disk.
3. The editor brought up on the list allows use of Rev functions, etc. in fields, and I don't want to risk users picking up on the functions, etc. which I have included in the (rather large, complex) product and misusing them.
4. I'd like the editor to be a separate program, so that I can have it shared between several products in a series. Information about the various types of reports which layouts can be generated for should also be gathered from information which an installer will populate the database with. This includes a list of available sections, fields, etc. for any given report (and there will be a different set of sections possible with different types of reports).
I could go on, but I think you get the idea by now. The editor is somewhat specialized, but I want it to look a bit more professional than a too-highly specialized tool.
Of course, dragging the palette window around to make a toolbar isn't particularly professional-looking, either...
Please Rev, let us specify a different tool for a single group placed on a card! Please...
Or at least let us scroll entire windows, rather than just groups: I could stand to use a floating palette if that helps...
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