OK, nearly there. All works as you said. The only problem I have is
that when the scrollbar becomes active, I see an arrow at the top of
it to scroll up but there is no arrow at the bottom of it to scroll
down. I have my Mac system preferences set to have the arrows at the
top and bottom of the scrollbar rather than the default of both of
them being at the bottom of the scrollbar. I have boticed this before
in the IDE, eg in the Search results display, the same thing happens.
Any ideas?
Pete Haworth
On Dec 23, 2010, at 10:34 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 12/23/10 11:27 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Thank you Richard and Jacquie. Yes my frustrations are making a
little
too judgemental, good job this list is providing an outlet for that!
Hey, that's why we're here. And there are lots of other people out
there who will read these responses and find help, so you are doing
a public service by asking. :)
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to resize a group.
I know, not specifically, but you will have to in order to get the
results you're after.
Someone on the list gave me the idea of grouping all the objects on
the
card together and placing a scrollbar on the group so that the user
on
the lower resolution screen would be able to scroll the contents of
the
card. Which begs the question of why cards can't have scrollbars but
that's a different discussion.
It's the easiest and best solution, so you are on the right track.
BTW, no operating system provides scrollable windows. What look like
scrollable windows in other apps are exactly what you're
implementing -- scrollable content in a fixed window.
I planned to detect the screen resolution
on startup and resize the windows by script as necessary to fit on
the
screen. I have no desire to resize the group or any controls on the
card. I just want the contents of the group to be scrollable when
either
the user or a script resizes the window in a way that not all of the
contents of the group are visible.
Ok, in that case it's easy. When your script resizes the window,
have it also resize the group. You need to do that because the
locked group (it must be locked) will not change size automatically,
it has to be told to fit the window. If the group's contents exceed
the group's size, the scrollbars will activate automatically. If the
group is large enough to accomodate all its contents, scrollbars
will disable automatically.
The one liner I mentioned should be all you need in your own handler
and/or a resizestack handler.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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