Scrolling Cards

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/17/04 5:08 PM, Jim Carwardine wrote:

> I'm still having trouble with this concept.  I've grouped a bunch of buttons
> and locked the location.  I also went into the Geometry properties and
> clicked on the pipes that Ray noted.  Now, the group is stable on openCard,
> but there are things that seem to happen when I quit Rev, restart it and
> open my file.  
> 
> First, as soon as the card appears on re-opening the file, the scroll bar on
> the group is off the card - the groups rect has resized.  What I noticed is
> that the group, locked down as it is, will resize to its original size if
> the card window width is smaller than the group rect width (the card window
> overlaps).  I can cause this to happen by manually resizing the stack window
> to overlap the group rect.
> 
> I also noticed that when I re-open the file, the card/stack window seems to
> have shifted, causing the group scroll to behave the way I've described.
> With all the controls I can tweak on groups and stacks, I'm not getting the
> right combination to stabilize my scrolling group.
> 
> There's lots of discussion of scrolling cards in the archives but nothing I
> can find to help correct my problem.
> 
> What am I missing?

I can't reproduce this. What happens if you unlock all the objects 
within the group and leave just the group itself locked?

On the other hand, is there a reason you need the card to be smaller 
than the group? Doesn't that obliterate the scrollbar you are trying to 
display?

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