How do I make a large scrolling window?

[Björnke von Gierke]

The group does not need to be bigger then the window, infact, in this 
case, you want the group to be exactly as big as the stack. Then you 
set the scrollbar. Very important is to set the lockLoc of the group to 
true (on "Size & Position" in the inspector check "Lock Position and 
Size").

Now to get things scrolling you could set something within the group to 
the target  size. For example (use message box for this):
set the loc of image "placeholder" to 10, 4000
now your group is scrollable up to 4000 pixels.

You can also drag your controls within the group around to get things 
scrolling, just use the "select grouped controls" mode and drag them 
out of bounds.

another aproach could be to generate your "real" controls using a 
script:

start editing group "Your groups name here"
put 12,20 into myCoords
repeat for 200 times
   create button
   set the loc of it to myCoords
   --set other properties of it here
   add 20 to item 2 of myCoords
end repeat

If this is all too complex for you then just ask again!

On Sonntag, Apr 11, 2004, at 22:58 Europe/Zurich, Graham Samuel wrote:

> ...
> What is not clear is what happens if you want to have the scroll 
> distance a lot larger (let's say higher) than the available screen 
> size: how do you get to see the far-off parts of the group in order to 
> populate it in the first place, using the usual method of positioning 
> objects visually?
> ...