New custom control available -- windowshade

[Geoff Canyon]

On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:35 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Nice work Geoff,
>
> I just finished my own accordian control. It's quite a bit simpler  
> and without some of the bells and whistles. I especially like the  
> way your buttons slide up and down.

That was especially painful to get right. I started by locking moves,  
then sending a move command for each of the groups that needed to  
move, then unlocking moves. That worked well for up to about five  
panes on my computer, but beyond that the moves lost their sync --  
not badly, but noticeably.

So I added a group specifically for moves. Whenever the pane needs to  
change, I figure out which ones are moving, put them into the "mover"  
group, then move that, then move them back out of the "mover" group.

You would think once I got that concept worked out it would be easy,  
but no. ;-)

My first thought for doing this was to issue a group command:

group control "whatever" and group "whatever" -- etc.

The problem was that the objects I was grouping were groups. The  
compiler doesn't like this:

group group "whatever" and --

The group group part throws it off (need to bugzilla that).

So instead I have the group ready to go, and move the groups into it  
by setting their layers. Working _that_ out was on the painful side ;-)

But the end result is that it should be able to accommodate virtually  
any number of panes without a slowdown, even on older computers.


>
> Mine's called (surprise) "altAccordion" and it's a breeze to  
> install. It's been checked out on both Mac and PC.
>
> Type into the message box:
> go URL "http://www.gadgetplugins.com/altplugins/altAccordion.rev"
> Then be sure an palette it (click topLeft corner invisible button),  
> and you can start installing it on stacks right away. Be sure and  
> read the instructions.
>
> So now there are a couple different versions to choose from  
> depending on what needs people have :-)

I'm not really familiar with this control -- are they usually just a  
list of lists? If that's so, maybe it's a good thing I didn't know  
what to call it. That way there's a distinction, since the  
windowshade control is just a group of groups, and can hold anything.

>
> best,
>
> -Chipp
>
> Geoff Canyon wrote:
>> I don't know what to call the thing. I've seen them called   
>> navigators, and accordions. I'm calling it a windowshade, since   
>> that's what it reminds me of. It's that control that displays a  
>> set  of titles, each of which is like a separate tab. You click on  
>> any of  them and the rest slide out of the way to show you the  
>> controls on  that pane of the control.
>
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