Geometry Manager Re: Stack window/screen sizes

[Robert Brenstein]

On 21.12.2010 at 15:34 Uhr -0800 Peter Haworth apparently wrote:
>I am now thinking that I may be able to make use of my own custom 
>properties along with some common code to implement all this. 
>Without that, it sounds like thousands of lines of code. 
>Alternatively, I'm naively hoping that I might be able to write some 
>code that will simply adjust the size of controls and the distance 
>between them based on the ratio between the old and new screen 
>sizes.  For example, if the user reduces the screen size by 10% 
>horizontally, it seems like I should be able to reduce the width of 
>all the controls and the horizontal distance between them by 10% and 
>everything should fit.
>I'm sure I;d need a way to deal with exceptions (cprops?).  Is that 
>too simplistic?

If there are any patterns, you can, of course, write functions to 
handle specific tasks or combinations of tasks for you. For example, 
I often have a series of buttons, a varying number of them, along the 
bottom edge of a window. They should be at a certain distance from 
the bottom and with certain offset to the right edge of the window 
and a fixed space between them. I have a function which gets long ids 
of those buttons, from rightmost to leftmost, and positions them 
automagically as user resizes a card. Same function is called on any 
card that has 1 or more such buttons.

Robert