This goes to the architecture discussion, but more to implemetation best practices/methods, and not organization.
Let's say we have a series of fields that have just a few words of text in them we want to center vertically. Text varies. Our designers may want to change the words over time. I don't want to have to go in and manually adjust the top and bottom margins to achieve the position. So then this is were dynamic runtime GUI layout/typesetting may be the way to go. Once the UI is all finished one could turn it off because the properties would be set for the fields. We could create a behavior (ideally an external.livecodescript text file) with this in it command centerTextVertically put the formattedheight of me into tTotalTextHeight put ( the height of me - tTotalTextHeight ) / 2 into tTopBottomMargins set topmargin of me to tTopBottomMargins end centerTextVertically put the long ID of the button that contains that into the field; then make multiple copies of that field place them on the UI. 1) When, how and what is the most efficient way...to trigger this? in a preopenstack or preopencard handler? so that the UI fields are all centered when the card renders? But then it needs to be a behavior of the stack or card, but then the reference to "me" fails to target the fields which all have the same name. 2) Still waiting on how to set a behavior to an external.livecodescript. Dictionary only descripts the long id of a button method. BR _______________________________________________ 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
