geometry manager - force resize

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Mar 15 22:15:32 EST 2004


rodney tamblyn wrote:
> 
> I don't know if this is orthodox, but it seems to work:
>
> If you sometimes find that when you go to a particular card the 
> geometry manager is not resizing the objects, you can do the following:
>
> try
>  resizeStack
> catch err
> end try
>
> if you don't surround the resizeStack in a try/catch you will get a 
> script error - because you don't have a resizeStack handler.  However 
> the geometry manager will now resize the stack elements.  Anyway, it 
> works.

Hmmm... I'd thought that calls to native messages only failed when using 
"send" to explicitely send it to an object.

I missed the original post, but if using the GM is problematic for that 
layout would writing a resizeStack handler cover it?

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