Scripting the Geometry Manager

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Bill Vlahos <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
> > I have a field which correctly adjusts its size in
> > response to resizing 
> > of the window via the geometry manager. This works
> > fine but I would 
> > also like to optionally insert another object
> > between the field and the 
> > bottom of the window. I can't see where to script
> > the settings in the 
> > geometry manager for an object.
> > 
> > The effect I want is similar to drawers in OS X
> but
> > I can't wait for 
> > Rev 2.0 which I believe has this feature.
> > 
> > If I could script an object's geo manager setting,
> > show/hide the new 
> > object, resize window, then update the screen this
> > would work.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bill Vlahos
> > 
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> You'll have to do a bit of digging, but I think that
> data is stored in the custom property
>   cRevGeometry[master,scaleBottomDistance]
> of the object.
> So I think if you change that, along with the
> corresponding item in the custom property
>   cRevGeometry[master,expectedRect]
> you should be able to trick the Geometry Manager
> into
> resizing things correctly upon 'revUpdateGeometry'.
> 

Come to think of it, this is a good case for the
profile manager if you're not using it for other
purposes: simply define a profile "DrawerOpened" and
set everything up under that profile, and switch
between Master and DrawerOpened by changing the
cRevGeneral[profile] of the objects.

Jan Schenkel.


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