Resizing stack to any screen size!

[Paul Salyers]

At 04:54 PM 1/1/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>Have seen a few posts about how to rezize a stack to suit your screen 
>size, here's how I did it!
>
>Resizing the main stack to suit any screen size is quite simple really, 
>the challenge comes when trying to keep all your fields in a relative size 
>& position.
>To resize a stack to any screen size I use the following code;
>
>on preOpenStack
>-- get users screen size -- left,top,width,height
>
>    put the screenrect into tScreenSize
>
>-- *Note: screenrect is the working size of the window NOT including borders.
>-- For this reason we set the parameters as follows.
>
>    set itemDel to ","
>    put item 3 of tScreenSize into tWidth
>    put item 4 of tScreenSize into tHeight
>    set the rect of this stack to 2,28,tWidth-2,tHeight-4
>
>end preOpenStack
>
>2 puts the window 2 pixels from the left
>28 puts the window 28 pixels from the top, this allows the window title 
>bar to show.
>tWidth-2 sets the overall window width to the screen size -2 pixels to 
>allow the border to fit.
>tHeight-4 sets the overall window height to the screen size -4 pixels to 
>allow the border to fit.
>
>This setting works well using windows XP but I haven't tested it on other OS'.
>
>To manipulate fields etc. use; set the rect of fld "fieldname" to 
>?,?,tWidth-?,tHeight-?
>
>Happy New Year!! ..... Dwayne


How do you apply the above theory the resize other object based on a 
percent of screen size?

image, label, button, etc?


Paul Salyers
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