I asked this exact question on StackOverflow a couple of weeks ago and before I was attacked by Mark for not asking the question he answered we were getting somewhere... I did create solution that works by retaining an offset for the child objects to use in their resizing.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16168091/how-do-you-change-the-rect-of-a-group-without-changing-the-location-of-the-objec/16178454#16178454 Anyway... all will be revealed at the conference on Tuesday On 10/05/2013, at 5:23 AM, Thomas McGrath III <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a way to resize and move a scrolling group without touching the > inside contents of that group??? This is on mobile and I need to resize a > scrolling group based on the position of the UI (navbar and toolbar when in > portrait and landscape) when the UI changes and then after the scrolling > group is right I then need to separately resize the contents for retina if > needed -- to double their height, width and topleft -- or regular. > > If I resize the group first then it moves the content and then doubling the > content makes it the right size but positioned wrong. > If I resize the content and then move the group then it again correctly sizes > the contents but positions them wrong. > > If the group moves then everything is in a different position from when I > laid them out in the desktop so they are off. > > I want the scrolling group code to be separate from the resizing code if > possible. > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
