Doing my own geometry

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Steve,

Why do you need a button to resize a window? Why can't you use OSX's  
own little handle in the bottom-right of each resizable window?

Everybody who uses the geometry manager is bound to run into its  
limits some day, losing a lot of time fixing it or even having to  
completely recreate one's work. I'd use a script that responds to the  
resizeStack message rather than the geometry manager.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 7-feb-2008, om 18:53 heeft Steve Checkley het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Jacque,
>
> Unfortunately, I've deleted the original handlers and gone back to  
> using Rev's own geometry manager.
>
> I'd placed a button in the bottom right of the window and turned on  
> live resizing.
>
> In pseudocode, the button's script ran along the lines of:
>
> on mouseDown
>    repeat while the mouse is down
>        set the rect of this stack in relation to the mouseLoc  
> (fixing min and max rects)
>    end repeat
> end mouseDown
>
> on resizeStack
>     lock screen
>     -- geometry script in here
>     unlock screen
> end resizeStack
>
> I have a feeling that I may still have been relying upon rev to  
> actually handle the geometry and was calling revUpdateGeometry but  
> I can't remember now. Mind you, when I was playing around, I didn't  
> have a lot on the card, so maybe not. My brain's a bit fried at the  
> moment, I'm afraid!
>
> Hmmm... I might have another look at this to see whether moving  
> objects directly in code works quicker that I remember.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in possibly the right direction!
>
>
>
> Steve