Geometry Problem

[MisterX]

Dave,

i'll try very hard to be objective...

Once your controls go haywire in Rev with the GM, you can try the following:

- type RevUpdateGeometry in the message box - this should trigger the right
redraw that was missed by the engine for whatever reason.

- If that fails, put an empty "on resizestack" handler in your stack
to prevent rev redrawing the geometry. Resize your controls and when you are
done, save. Then try to revCacheGeometry - but it may screw things up
later...

Problems arise if you changed the owner a control or group after setting the
revGM properties. You can detect them via a stack i made 
http://monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=72

To prevent madness, use these two functions to "test" the gm:

-- Save all positions in case of GM screw up
on saveGeometry
  local clist, cid, crect
  put the rect of this stack & CR into clist
  repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls
    put the short id of control x into cid
    put the rect of control x into crect
    put cid & tab & crect & cr after clist
  end repeat
  delete last char of clist
  set the OriginalGeometry of this stack to clist
end saveGeometry

on restoreGeometry
  local clist, cid, crect
  lock messages
  put the OriginalGeometry of this stack into clist
  set the rect of this stack to line 1 of clist
  delete line 1 of clist
  set the itemdelimiter to tab
  repeat for each line L in clist
    put item 1 of L into cid
    put item 2 of L into crect
    set the rect of control id CID to crect
  end repeat
  --if not isMetaCard() then 
    revcachegeometry
  --end if
end restoreGeometry

I have a bonus script that STRIPS the GM from stacks too which was used
quite often since their button "clear GM" in the RPP wasn't usefull... but
it's too long to post here... ;)

Remember that if you have a RevErrorDisplay action due to a bug, it may
block any GM from working (yet another bummer to watch for)... 

Example: open the revErrorDisplay stack and see it naked! ;) 

Try to type revUpdateGeometry right after in the message box to set your GM
to normal - but it may not work...

Last but not least, please vote for bugzillas:
1223, 2079, 2341, 2355, 2335, 2363 in the hopes that they fix it one day.

After months of crying, complaining and going bananas with the GM, i wrote
my own "object oriented GM". I haven't had ONE problem or mis-resize
since...

hope that helps
Xavier
http://MonsieurX.com