Bob. I do not know why Klaus wants to truncate his groups, but I suspect it has nothing to do with fitting them onto the card.
Craig > On Oct 11, 2024, at 11:44 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hmmm… I wrote a handler to determine the rect of all the visible objects on a > card so I can set the stack rect to that plus margins. It involved getting > the left, top, right and bottom as seperate values, of every visible object, > then determining the min and max of each set of values as needed. You should > be able to something similar. > > Bob S > > >> On Oct 11, 2024, at 6:58 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Klaus. >> >> Answered in the forum: >> >> Klaus. >> >> If I make a group and set its height property to a value smaller than the >> original, the top of the group stays put, and the bottom is truncated, so >> that is half the battle. If I then play with the scroll of the group, I can >> control the visible portion. >> >> Craig >> >>> On Oct 11, 2024, at 6:17 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi friends, >>> >>> I want to clip a group by script but cannot get it to work!? >>> See this image, it shows what i want to achieve: >>> <https://major-k.de/temp/group_clipping.png> >>> >>> I want the content of the group to be clipped at the top and bottom. >>> No problem when resizing manually but no dice by script so far. >>> >>> I tried many variations of boundingrect, rect, clipstorect, >>> lockloc, height and whatnot. >>> >>> Any hints very welcome! :-) >>> >>> >>> Best >>> >>> Klaus >>> >>> -- >>> Klaus Major >>> https://www.major-k.de >>> https://www.major-k.de/bass >>> kl...@major-k.de >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
