Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)

[J. Landman Gay]

On 6/17/04 12:21 PM, Raymond E. Griffith wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Bornstein" <bornstein at designeq.com>
> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:26 PM
> Subject: Can't set a card to the screenrect (sort of)
> 
> 
> 
>>These are the kind of problems that just drive me batty.
>>
>>I create a stack via code. Then I set it to the rect of the screenrect.
>>
>>I do a bunch of stuff, including adding items to the stack. Then I
>>group the items.
>>
>>Finally, I set the rect of the group to the rect of the card (which
>>should be the screenrect).
>>
>>This works fine if I put in a breakpoint. I run the code, hit the
>>breakpoint, click Run in the debugger, and Bob's your uncle. I end up
>>with a scrollable group the size of the screen.
>>
>>However, if I just run the code without any breakpoint, Rev thinks the
>>card size is 256 X 256 (the default size when creating a card) and the
>>group is set to this size--even after I've set the rect of the stack to
>>the screenrect.
>>
>>The commands I use are:
>>
>><create a stack>
>>set the rect of stack MapName to the screenRect
>><create objects and group them>
>>set the rect of group "Grid" of card "Map" of stack MapName to the rect
>>of card "Map" of stack MapName
> 
> 
> There is no "rect" of a card, simply the rect of the stack.

True, they are the the same, proportionally. The language does support 
getting the rect of a card though; it's a handy way to get stack sizes 
in local coordinates. The rect of the stack returns in global coordinates.

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