I think you meant the formattedRect property, not formattedWidth. If you check the formattedRect property, you should be able to get right/bottom positions you want without looping through the card objects.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 7/10/14 12:02 PM, "Peter Haworth" <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >Hi SCott, >Yes, I'm currently doing what you suggest by looking at all the controls >on >the card. > >What I don't understand is why the formattedWidth of a card doesn't return >what's described in the dictionary. It appears to simply return the width >of the widest control on the card when what it should do is return the >right of the rightmost control. Seems like a bug to me but that property >has been around for a long time so not sure what it hasn't come up before. > > >Pete >lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> > > >On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> >wrote: > >> I'm still not quite clear on what you're trying to accomplish. If you >> want to size a stack to the rect of all visible elements on a card, you >> need to check the extents of those objects -- the right-most and >> bottom-most edges -- not the space they occupy with formattedWidth or >> height. >> >> If I understand what you're looking to do, loop through your card >>objects, >> grab the greatest right and bottom extents, and that should give you the >> dimensions to use for your stack. >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design >> >> >> >> >> On 7/10/14 10:07 AM, "Peter Haworth" <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >> >> >I recently posted about how to adjust the size of different cards >>within a >> >stack and part of the solution I tried was using the formattedWidth and >> >formattedHeight properties (actually the effective versions of them). >> > >> >I'm now seeing that the formattedWidth (and probably formattedHeight) >> >return very unexpected values. >> > >> >The dictionary says it returns the width of a rectangle that contains >>all >> >objects in the card whose visible property is true but I'm not seeing >> >that. >> > >> >Make yourself a stack with a field on it with it's left edge in the >>middle >> >of the stack and it's right edge somewhere off the right edge of the >> >stack. >> > >> >Put a button on the card with the following code: >> > >> >get the rectangle of this stack >> >put item 1 of it + the formattedWidth of this card into item 3 of it >> >set the rectangle of this stack to it >> > >> >When you click the button, the stack will resize to the width of the >> >field, >> >in other words, the right edge of the field will still be off the right >> >edge of the stack. The only way this works correctly is if the field's >> >left edge is at the left edge of the stack. >> > >> >I'm sure this is way formattedWIdth has always worked so it's not >>likely >> >to >> >be changed but it seems to be a not very useful implementation to me. >> > >> >Is there some other property that can be used to set the width of a >>stack >> >to something that really does include all the objects on it? >> > >> >Pete >> >lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >> >Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >> >SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> >> >_______________________________________________ >> >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
