Window staggering

[Jim Ault]

My first thought is to set a start location (10,10) and an ending topLeft
(100,100) and 2 increments (eg. 30,50), then use a loop for the number of
windows to find the topLeft, (then set the rightBottom according to the
screenrect available, if desired).

Of course, step 1 would be determining the window order (alphabetical,
current stacking order, etc)

on test
  
  put 30 into xIncrm
  put 40 into yIncrm
  put 10 into xStart
  put 10 into yStart
  put 120 into xMax
  
  put 160 into widthh
  put 90 into heightt
  
  put xStart into currX
  put yStart into currY
  repeat with s = 1 to the number of stacks
    set the left of stack s to currX
    set the top of stack s to currY
    --set the width and height if needed
    add xIncrm ot currX
    add yIncrm ot currY
    if currX > xMax then
      put xStart into currX
      put yStart into currY
    end if
    
  end repeat
  
end test
---not tested, just typed off the top of my head

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 4/11/06 8:12 PM, "James Spencer" <jspencer78 at mac.com> wrote:

> This should be really easy and I don't want to rediscover gravity so
> I'll ask first: does anyone here have a simple algorithm for
> staggering new windows in a multiwindow app?  I've gotten spoiled by
> Cocoa, etc. which takes care of this for me but cloning a template
> window in Rev does not.  Obviously, I could just move my new window a
> bit but I'm not sure how far and in any case, if the number of
> windows is large enough, we need to restart at the top.  I figure
> someone has written this already??
> 
> Spence
> 
> James P. Spencer
> Rochester, MN
> 
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