Thanks guys. The double click on Edit Group seems to be the easiest way around this. I do believe it is a bug irrespective of how long it's been around. Not necessarily a code bug - maybe just fixing the dictionary entry bug would make it right. I'll enter something at the QC just so it's on record. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:35 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 7/12/11 11:11 PM, Pete wrote: > >> It seems that this problem is not restricted to when there is just one >> control in a group. If I create a group with any number of controls in it >> then try to resize one of the controls, the group does not expand to >> accommodate the new control size. Moving a control resizes the >> group, resizing it does not. If I change the size of a control in the >> group >> by script, the group does expand accordingly. >> >> The lockLocation property of the group is false. Is there some other >> property of the group I need to set/unset to allow resizing of a control? >> I >> fnot, I plan to report this as a bug. >> > > I'm not sure whether it's a bug or not, but the behavior has been there > since the engine was MetaCard. It may be partly a byproduct of the > boundingrect property. I've gotten so used to it I don't even think about it > any more; if I want a group to expand to fit the objects, I just click twice > on Edit Group in the toolbar. That pops me in and out of edit mode quickly, > and when coming back out of edit mode, the group adjusts to fit the objects. > Any kind of redraw will do the same thing, like going to the next card and > back. > > -- > 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
