Scrolling Cards

[Jim Carwardine]

I have more buttons in the gallery group than I want to display on the card
at one time.  The user will want to store an unspecified number of
thumbnails on these buttons, allowing navigation to the specific cards they
are linked to.  Thus, my reason for scrolling the group.  I was hoping for
similar flexibility to a browser window on an internet browser whereby the
user has an option of making the card/stack window smaller and the group
will still scroll.  The rest of the card below the gallery will also
eventually be grouped and scrolled in the same way if I can get it to work.

I removed the lock location from the buttons inside the group and the
behaviour is still the same.  In fact, it's consistent which makes me think
there is something fundamental I'm doing wrong.  I've been in IT for over 30
years and one thing I've learned over and over is that if you encounter an
unsolvable problem, when you find it, it's going to be embarrassing.

Here's what I want... Size of gallery is 780,106.  Position is
220,0,1000,106.  Location 610,53.  Rect of stack on open is 8,89,1014,721.

Here's what I'm getting on openStack... Size of gallery is 1387,97.
Position is 220,-1,1607,96.  Location 913,47.  Rect of stack on open is
77,114,1014,753.

I've changed nothing, just quit Rev and restarted and reopened the file and
the size of the stack window and it's position have changed.  AND it's
consistently giving me the same altered size and position when it reopens.

If I just leave it in its altered size and position, don't reposition the
scrolling group, save and close the file, when it repoens, it is the same
size and position.  It hasn't changed again.  So whatever is happening, it
seems to be related to the scrolling group.

The fact that you can't reproduce it is also curious.

I'm using the demo copy of Rev. v 2.1.2 on a G3 Powerbook, 320MB, 4 GB
running OS 9.2.2.

Jim

on 1/18/04 12:27 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 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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