Geometry Manager [was: newbie: when to use substacks?]

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Igor Couto <igor at pixelmedia.com.au> wrote:
> Hi there, Jan!
> 
> On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 03:20  PM, Jan Schenkel
> wrote:
> 
> > I've been using the Geometry Manager quite a bit
> the
> > past 3 weeks and never had problems with different
> > cards in the same stack with their own geometry
> > setups.
> 
> I think I know what Alex is referring to... Try
> this:
> 
> 1) Create New Stack
> 
> 2) Place a field
> 
> 3) Use the Geometry Manager to specify that the
> field should resize 
> (scale) if the stack window is resized.
> 
> 4) Create a New Card.
> 
> Now, your new card is empty.
> 
> 5) While you are in your new card, RESIZE THE STACK
> WINDOW.
> 
> 6) Go to the first card, where our field is. Voila!
> The field has not 
> resized...
> 
> Note that if you resize the stack NOW, while you are
> on the first card, 
> then the field WILL resize as specified. So it seems
> that the Geometry 
> Manager specs work ONLY for the current, active card
> being resized - 
> not all the other cards in the stack... That is kind
> of efficient - I 
> can see the reason to keep it that way - but on the
> other hand, when 
> the user opens a new card, shouldn't the Geometry
> Manager check that 
> the geometry of the objects present satisfy the user
> specifications?
> 
> Is there a command we can put in a scrip on
> preOpenCard, perhaps, that 
> will get the Geometry Manager to do its thing before
> the card opens?
> 
> Many thanks,
> --
> Igor de Oliveira Couto
> 

Hi Igor,

I would have to try that out later, but if I recall
correctly from my digging around in the geometry
manager script, that _ought_ to work unless you don't
pass the preOpenCard somewhere along the message path.
At any rate, adding the following to your stack script
should work :

on preOpenCard
  revCacheGeometry
  revUpdateGeometry
  pass preOpenCard
end preOpenCard

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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