Resizing the objects in a group

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Wed Jul 13 00:37:14 EDT 2011


if you edit the group, then close it, it will auto resize to the bounds of
all the controls-- assuming the group's lockloc prop is not true.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> It seems that this problem is not restricted to when there is just one
> control in a group.  If I create a group with any number of controls in it
> then try to resize one of the controls, the group does not expand to
> accommodate the new control size.  Moving a control resizes the
> group, resizing it does not.  If I change the size of a control in the
> group
> by script, the group does expand accordingly.
>
> The lockLocation property of the group is false.  Is there some other
> property of the group I need to set/unset to allow resizing of a control?
>  I
> fnot, I plan to report this as a bug.
>
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
>
> > According to the dictionary: "If the *lockLocation* of a group is false,
> > the group is automatically resized when the objects in it are moved,
> > resized, hidden, or shown."
> >
> > I have a group that has just one control in it - a datagrid - and its
> > lockloc is false.  If I resize the datagrid by dragging its handles, the
> > group does not resize and the parts of the datagrid that are outside the
> > group are no longer visible.
> >
> > With some experimentation, this seems to happen with any group that has
> > only one control in it, no matter what type of control it is. I know it's
> > not normal to have a group with just one object in it but any ideas why
> this
> > might be happening?
> >
> > Pete
> > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
> >
> >
> >
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