You probably need to lock messages in the beginning of your resizeControl. Otherwise the group will adapt to your resizing of your controls. I usually begin with both lock messages and lock screen, but the last is more for optimization.
Håkan On 3 May 2020, 16:22 +0200, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > I realized after the discussion last week about resizing that I was > missing the benefits of "resizeControl" being sent to each group, so I > changed one of my resize handlers to make use of groups (adding a few > groups along the way). > > And it all went wrong :-( > > Eventually I traced it down to the following ... and don't know if I'm > missing something or if I've bumped into a bug. > > The resize handler is > > > on resizeControl > > set the width of field "list titles" of me to the width of me - 20 > > put "B" && the rect of me && the bottom of me &CR after msg > > set the left of field "list titles" of me to 10 > > put "C" && the rect of me && the bottom of me &CR after msg > > local tR > > put 10, the top of me, the right of me -10, the bottom of me-10 into tR > > set the rect of fld "List" of me to tR > > end resizeControl > > Note the two "put ... msg" statements. - for no reason I can figure out, > the "bottom of me" changes between these two statements. Here's the > output from the message box: > > > B 5,32,331,468 468 > > C 6,32,325,2618 2618 > > B 5,32,331,471 471 > > C 5,32,320,2622 2622 > > B 5,32,331,473 473 > > C 5,32,320,2626 2626 > > > If I comment out that "set the left of ..." statement, all apparently > works as expected. > > Why should setting the 'left' of a control change the bottom of its > enclosing group ? > > And why change it to an apparently silly value ? > > -- Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
