Drag to resize list fields

[Scott Morrow]

Hello Russell,

Eric Chatonet of So Smart Software has a fine example on how to do  
this as part of his "Managing Resizing" tutorial.

http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=revolution_didacticiels&l=en

In the example stack look under the "Tips and Tricks" tab and click  
the "Two Fields Together" button.  The script is in the divider bar.


-Scott Morrow

Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust !)
web     http://elementarysoftware.com/
email   scott at elementarysoftware.com

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On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Russell Martin wrote:

> Hi. I'm attempting to create an interface where I have two list  
> fields side by side. I would like the user to be able to click in  
> the space between the two lists and then drag left or right to and  
> have the lists widths to be resized.
>
> What I've attempted to do, is to put a tall narrow rectangle in the  
> space between the two fields and then have it respond to the  
> mouseDown and dragMove messages.
>
> They look like this:
>
> on mouseDown
>   -- I set the dragdata, because the documentation led me to believe
>   -- it was necessary to get the rectangle to respond to dragMove  
> messages
>   set the dragdata["text"] to "text being dragged"
>   -- the rectangle's width is 10 and so this immediately moves the  
> rectangle
>   -- to be centered to the pointer, if the pointer escapes the  
> rectangle, the drag
>   -- operation fails
>   set the left of me to the mouseH - 5
> end mouseDown
>
>
> on dragMove
>   -- again, this centers the rectangle to the pointer
>   set the left of me to the mouseH - 5
>   -- this resizes the left hand field to be one pixel away from the  
> rectangle
>   set the width of field LeftSideField to the mouseH - 6
>   -- this gets the left hand field positioned properly again  
> against the left
>   -- edge of the window
>   set the left of field LeftSideField to 0
>   -- then, I set the width of the right hand field and fix it's  
> position
>   set the width of field RightSideField to width of this stack -  
> the mouseH - 6
>   set the left of field RightSideField to width the mouseH - 6
> end dragMove
>
>
> Now, this mostly works, but not as well as I'd like. If you move  
> the pointer too quickly (which is not hard to do), it will escape  
> from the rectangle and your drag operation will stop and the  
> dragMove messages will start making their way up the message path.  
> Also, even if you drag slowly enough to avoid this, when the window  
> is resized and the fields resize based on their geometry settings,  
> they are no longer within one pixel of the rectangle.
>
> I'm thinking that there has two be a better way to accomplish what  
> I'm trying to do in Revolution. I'm hoping that someone out there  
> will be able to set me straight. Thanks in advance. :-)
>
>
>
>
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