formattedWidth

[Peter Haworth]

Hi SCott,
Yes, I'm currently doing what you suggest by looking at all the controls on
the card.

What I don't understand is why the formattedWidth of a card doesn't return
what's described in the dictionary.  It appears to simply return the width
of the widest control on the card when what it should do is return the
right of the rightmost control.  Seems like a bug to me but that property
has been around for a long time so not sure what it hasn't come up before.


Pete
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>
wrote:

> I'm still not quite clear on what you're trying to accomplish.  If you
> want to size a stack to the rect of all visible elements on a card, you
> need to check the extents of those objects -- the right-most and
> bottom-most edges -- not the space they occupy with formattedWidth or
> height.
>
> If I understand what you're looking to do, loop through your card objects,
> grab the greatest right and bottom extents, and that should give you the
> dimensions to use for your stack.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 7/10/14 10:07 AM, "Peter Haworth" <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> >I recently posted about how to adjust the size of different cards within a
> >stack and part of the solution I tried was using the formattedWidth and
> >formattedHeight properties (actually the effective versions of them).
> >
> >I'm now seeing that the formattedWidth (and probably formattedHeight)
> >return very unexpected values.
> >
> >The dictionary says it returns the width of a rectangle that contains all
> >objects in the card whose visible property is true but I'm not seeing
> >that.
> >
> >Make yourself a stack with a field on it with it's left edge in the middle
> >of the stack and it's right edge somewhere off the right edge of the
> >stack.
> >
> >Put a button on the card with the following code:
> >
> >get the rectangle of this stack
> >put item 1 of it + the formattedWidth of this card into item 3 of it
> >set the rectangle of this stack to it
> >
> >When you click the button, the stack will resize to the width of the
> >field,
> >in other words, the right edge of the field will still be off the right
> >edge of the stack.  The only way this works correctly is if the field's
> >left edge is at the left edge of the stack.
> >
> >I'm sure this is way formattedWIdth has always worked so it's not likely
> >to
> >be changed but it seems to be a not very useful implementation to me.
> >
> >Is there some other property that can be used to set the width of a stack
> >to something that really does include all the objects on it?
> >
> >Pete
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