template stacks

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 7/28/17 7:01 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> Am I the only one who doesn't make all of his stacks the same size? :)

No, you're not . . .

*BUT*, imagine working for an employer who had fixated on a set size; 
things would be a lot quicker if everytime one fired up LiveCode to knock
of a *prototype* (hey, haven't heard that word for a long, long time) . 
. . .
>
> I generally don't care what size they're created at.  I resize them as 
> I work by dragging the edges, as users do.
>
> In those cases where I need a fixed size, the specific dimensions are 
> rarely discernible in advance, something I'll need to figure out after 
> I've done the layout.
>
> In the rarer case where I need multiple stacks of a specific size, 
> chances are I need more common elements than just size, so I'll make 
> one how I need it and then clone it.
>
> But those seem pretty rare to me.  On desktop my windows tend to be 
> different sizes, and on mobile it's important that they be responsive 
> to any screen size; in either case the specific dimensions at the 
> moment of creation seem of little value.
>

Richmond.