Relational Layouts (was: Re: nuther new newbie nuisance)

[Bob Sneidar]

I think someone did this already. They built a geometry manager (which is what Livecode calls what you want to do). 

Bob


On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Nonsanity wrote:

> As a side note, I designed the UI XML system used for Oblivion and Fallout 3
> (I don't know if Bethesda is still using it for Skyrim), and it used an
> active version of this sort of relational layout. You could set the left of
> an image, for example, to always be the right of another image plus 10. Then
> if the other image moved, so would this one.
> 
> As long as the engine could detect circular references, this made for quite
> a powerful layout engine. I've wanted to duplicate it in LC for some time
> now, and what with delving into the mobile market, I think it would be
> excellent for dealing with many different screen sizes and orientations.
> 
> I still need to work out an simple way to add the new layout behaviors to
> objects that won't get too much in the way for the developer. (Too bad we
> can't have multiple behaviors for an object.)
> 
> And if anyone is interested in details of the XML version, the docs I always
> wanted to write but never did have been wiki-compiled by fans here:
> 
> http://cs.elderscrolls.com/constwiki/index.php?title=Category:Oblivion_XML&redirect=no
> 
> ~ Chris Innanen
> ~ Nonsanity
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Roger Eller
> <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> In addition to left/top/right/bottom, there is also loc.
>>> 
>>> ~Roger
>>> 
>>> 
>> and width and height (probably others too).
>> 
>> ~Roger
>> 
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