> On 14 Jun 2017, at 8:19 am, Devin Asay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Yes, in essence. If you have a group and set the clipsToRect property to true > (there’s no way to set it in the PI yet—that’s what I’m going to add), you > can then change the rect of the group, and the group will *not* automatically > reset its rect to the size of the child controls + margin. It is persistent, > even if you leave the card or close the stack. Yet the group’s position and > size remains unlocked so you can quickly select and change the group’s rect > if you want. A nice feature when you need it. > > ClipsToRect is the property name. So what “plain language” label do you think > would be best for the PI?
I think this is one of those cases where the default behaviour was a bad idea. Or perhaps was implemented before groups were used for much other than backgrounds. Other objects we need to set to the formatted width/height so why are groups special cased. Anyway, I would keep it simple and use `Clips to rect` so at least it’s easy to relate to the dictionary entry/property name. What would really be good and resolve this to a significant extent is if the tooltip were multi-line with the property summary included. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19858 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19858> Cheers Monte _______________________________________________ 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
