I write very extensive setLayout handlers that set the size, position, font size, and other characteristics based on screen dimensions. It is a pain, but if we do it from the start, apps will always fit any screen and look good.
In this way, copying or creating a new control on a group is sufficient. The layout will happen with the setLayout script. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 24, 2017, at 2:30 PM, jonathandly...@gmail.com wrote: > > Copy button "my button" to group "my group" > Set the loc of button "my button" of group "my group" to x,y > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 24, 2017, at 10:35 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Workin in 9.0.0 DP9 now. Old issues of editing groups seems to have gotten >> worse. selections lines around objects continue to appear even if you have >> select a different object, now the selection dashed lines remain on the >> previously selected object and it's as if we shift selected two object, but >> no, there is only 1 selected. when in group editing mode copy and paste >> object, the objects are pasted outside the group on the top layers of the >> card instead of in the group itself… >> >> At any rate… working with it… >> >> But I have a bigger question… How do you mobile pro develop scrolling groups >> either vertical sliders or horizontal sliders, which are, but their very >> nature, wider than the screen, or taller than the screen? >> >> e.g. if you have a group that is 1200 px tall and the card is 736h. and you >> want to add objects to the bottom of the group, how do you go about it? If >> you set the scroll of the group to some big number like 1200… it will only >> scroll up to the bottom of the group (seems odd to me) you don't get any >> extra space below the last item. so if you go to edit at that point, the >> group has no room below. one could temporarily increase the height of the >> stack, but if you have controls on the bottom that may not work well. and >> besides, you will run out of screen space anyway. >> >> I can set the top of the group to -500, now we have room on the screen below >> the last rows of the group. but the IDE will not allow you to drag out the >> height of the group to make more room for more objects. If I try to edit the >> group, I can select and copy the objects in the last row, as noted above, >> they are pasted outside the group. >> >> More struggle here than seems it should be. But editing larger groups of >> with many objects has always seemed to be a challenge for the IDE "since >> forever"… >> >> How do you do it? I would try do it programattically, but there is no >> command like >> >> "copy fld "link-label to grp "portal-scroller" at x,y" >> >> which could b really useful in this context. >> >> Brahmanathswami >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
