scaleFactor strangeness

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-10-14 10:21, Monte Goulding wrote:
> Don’t both of these issues disappear if you create a stack view object
> instead of group scalefactor? Given a stack which already has a
> scaleFactor? Object rects remain relative to the stack whether the
> stack is presented as a window or in a view. From the perspective of
> the stack with the window it would just have a single view object
> which has a stackName and a rect.. perhaps some other stuff like
> visible etc...

Yup - if you have a 'stackview' control - then the problem goes away 
because you have a nice clear dividing line between objects in one 
co-ordinate system compared to the other.

We'd probably want some explicit syntax for working out the rect of an 
object in a stackview, from the point of view of the stack containing 
the stackview; and also some means to communicate from the embedded 
stack to the host view... However, perhaps both of these things are 
unnecessary - the stacks could just as well communicate by sharing a 
common library.

Basically, there aren't really any difficult technical problems if you 
limit stackviews to being 'the ability to display a stack in a subpart 
of another stack, rather than a window' with no more integration beyond 
that, other than them being stacks.

Mark.

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