formattedheight and formattedwidth

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jun 25 22:04:57 EDT 2011


On 6/25/11 2:17 PM, Pete wrote:
> I have a number of cards in the same substack that need to be displayed with
> different heights and widths.  In the preOpenStack handlerr, I have:
>
> set the height of this stack to the formattedheight of this card
> set the width of this stack to the formattedwidth of this card
>
> The height and width end up several pixels short of what they need to be.
>   Adding 10 to the fomattedheight and 20 to the formattedwidth makes things
> about right, but

Use the height and width, not the formattedHeight and formattedWidth. 
The formatted measurements only include the smallest area that 
encompasses all the visible objects objects. If the card objects don't 
touch all four sides, the formatted measurements will be smaller than 
the card measurements.

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