Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Scott, If you group all controls and groups and set Select Grouped Controls to false (in the Edit menu) you can only select the main group and not the nested groups. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twit

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-10 Thread Richmond
On 03/10/2012 06:04 PM, Dar Scott wrote: An alternative for developing high area stacks would be a half resolution mode. The stack rect and other sizes would be in real pixels but the other pixels would be in virtual pixels, two for each real pixel. ??? Virtual pixels ??? Are these someth

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-10 Thread Dar Scott
An alternative for developing high area stacks would be a half resolution mode. The stack rect and other sizes would be in real pixels but the other pixels would be in virtual pixels, two for each real pixel. I'm doing something like that scripted. I'm developing at half size and the thing do

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-10 Thread Richmond
On 03/10/2012 05:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: That was a pun, wasn't it! On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. ___

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-10 Thread Colin Holgate
That was a pun, wasn't it! On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... > > It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-li

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. Most apps that have scrolling regions also have non-scrolling ones, such as a toolbar or other controls, so with groups we're in control of what can b

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Dar Scott
Hi, Mark! I don't understand the problem with select Grouped Controls. Mental block I guess. What is the issue here? Dar On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Dar, > > Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the > scroll bars in full-screen mod

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... Pete On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Dar, > > Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the > scroll bars in full-screen mode. The only pro

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dar, Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the scroll bars in full-screen mode. The only problem is that turning off Select Grouped Controls can be problematic, but you can probably write a front script for that. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Tal

Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Dar Scott
I need to edit the GUI on a stack that is very wide and very tall for a full screen app on a large screen that is much larger than my development environment. I also want to do some testing (click buttons, watch images fly around) on the development system. Ideas? (I suspect there is some fea