I thought you should be able to set the templateGroup properties, maybe using a plugin that opens on LC startup, so I tried a test stack and found that the templateGroup props don’t apply to a new group (at least not the margins and borderWidth), the dictionary suggests this should work, so I tried it in LC 7 - no luck, then LC 5 - still no luck! so I guess this is a long standing bug that doesn’t affect anyone…
I’d be happy to bug report it with my test stack, but I don’t want to tread on any toes! Paul > On May 13, 2016, at 8:12 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> > wrote: > > Am I the only one wishing that when we create a group the defaults should be > no border, no border width assign and margins 0? > > This keeps biting me as the dimensions of group and what appears on screen > don't match and movement of objects in the group displace the group in ways > that are off by a few pixels. One gets a 2 pixel blank area inside the > group. If you set the bottom of the gropu to the bottom o the card… you still > get a 2 pixel transparent area underneath the group… Setting a background > object like a graphic to the exact same dimensions and rect of the group… > they don't match. > > But then if you turn off the border, explicitly set line width to 0 and > margins to 0, the dimensions and what you see and the relation between > objects in the group in terms of their coordinates… all work as expected. > > Proposed: > > the default for a new group be "clean and unadorned"… without any GUI > attributes other than the objects that comprise the group. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
