Geometry in latest version of RunRev

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 22:49:19 EDT 2007


> The GM is good for what it does, but it can't anticipate all possible
> combinations of object-ordering needs, and will fail in some cases.
>
> Writing one's one geometry management is so simple that I never
> understood why RunRev saddled themselves with writing 40k of GM script
> just for a subset of needs.
>
> Just use the resizeStack message, and you can trim most object resizing
> to one-line calls using a custom function:
>

I agree with Richard. Writing your own gives you far better control.
However I have 2 custom handlers: one sets the rect like Richard's and
the other sets the loc, which is more convenient for buttons that
don't need to resize, just move.

Cheers,
Sarah



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