formattedWidth

[Scott Rossi]

I think you meant the formattedRect property, not formattedWidth.  If you
check the formattedRect property, you should be able to get right/bottom
positions you want without looping through the card objects.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 7/10/14 12:02 PM, "Peter Haworth" <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

>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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