Virtual card height?

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 11:06 AM -0400 7/7/2004, Troy Rollins wrote:
>In the property inspector for cards, the option is there to add to 
>virtual height, and add to virtual width.
>
>What exactly does this do? And how is it used?


It's so that you can use the geometry manager with "off-the-card" 
objects without having them crunched into the actual card. It causes 
the Geometry Manager to assume the card is the virtual size when 
scaling (and, I think, positioning).

I think Kevin intended this for use in situations like the Animation 
Manager window, where there's a "fold-up" arrow that actually changes 
the size of the card. In the folded state, the geometry manager might 
mess up the controls (scaling them too small to fit the smaller 
window size, etc.). By instead using a virtual width and height the 
same size as the unfolded window, you ensure that the scaling works 
the same way regardless of the window's folded or unfolded state.
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