Changing the width of a stack

[Scott Rossi]

What Devin said.  And it sounds like you'll want to set the rect of the
stack to the new dimensions so you can make the change in a single pass,
rather than changing width/loc properties separately.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 6/27/15, 12:08 PM, "Devin Asay" <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

>Pete,
>
>I'm away from my compy so I can't check the dictionary, but I think what
>you need is the global loc of the control.
>
>Devin 
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 27, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a stack with three controls on it, one at the left edge of the
>> stack, one centered horizontally, and one at the right edge of the
>>stack.
>> 
>> I want to change the dimensions of the stack so that it's left edge is
>>at
>> the left of the centered control and its right edge is at the right of
>>the
>> centered control. And also change its dimensions back to the original
>> settings when necessary.
>> 
>> As I have a graphically challenged brain, I have been unable to figure
>>out
>> how to do this.
>> 
>> References to the left of a  stack are relative to the edge of the
>>screen
>> so they move the position of the stack on the screen and don't change
>>its
>> width.
>> 
>> I'm probably missing something obvious and hoping that someone will
>>point
>> it out to me.
>> 
>> Pete
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