A few useful links: NOTE - These are somewhat dated. Source: LiveCode SuperSite <http://livecodesupersite.com/tutorials.html>
*The Official Geometry Manager:* http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/19026-geometry-manager *NativeSoft Geometry Manager (part 1):* http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4068/l/17796-nativesoft-nativegeometry-tutorial-1 *NativeSoft Geometry Manager (part 2):* http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4068/l/17807-nativesoft-nativegeometry-tutorial-2-the-api *NativeSoft Cross-Platform Guide:* http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4068/l/20930-my-cross-platform-nativegeometry-guide On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Rick Harrison <harri...@all-auctions.com> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Thank you for your well put together answer on the subject. > > It does however bring up the point that all of us are probably > reinventing everyone’s wheel over and over. It might make > sense to put together a routine that could be shared with > everyone that is of a generic nature to help solve this problem. > > Thanks again! > > Rick > > > On Sep 18, 2015, at 3:06 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > > > Ditto. The GM seems like a good idea when you first start poking around > with it, and as long as you're doing simple things with it it all seems > dandy. But sooner or later you'll come across something you need to do, > some object that has to be positioned relative to something else, that's > just difficult to do in the GM. And by the time you figure it out and go > through all the clicking, how much time was saved? > > > > Writing your own resizeStack handlers is very liberating. Sure, it can > be a bit tedious, but you generally only need to do it once and forget > about it until you make serious changes - when you'd have to redo all your > GM clicking anyway. > > > > With your own custom code you have complete control over everything. > Well worth the modest effort. > > > > -- > > Richard Gaskin > > Fourth World Systems > > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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