Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Waddingham wrote:

 > On 2017-06-12 22:22, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
 >> For group controls you will find that it is. Try it.  It's quite
 >> handy.
 >
 > Another useful thing which I'm not sure is particularly visible (but
 > is in the dictionary!) is the group 'clipsToRect' property.
 >
 > When 'the clipsToRect' is set to true you get a group which acts like
 > lockLocation is set, but is resizable. In  this case the group's size
 > is determined purely by the rect it has set, and not the union of the
 > rectangles of its children.
 >
 > This might have been mentioned somewhere else in this thread, but its
 > probably worth repeating if so as a group with clipsToRect true, and a
 > resizeControl handler makes a good base for a custom control.

Super cool.  I missed that in the v6.2 Release Notes when it appeared - 
thanks for pointing it out.

As long as we're exploring methods for encapsulating resizing, what are 
the odds this enhancement you submitted may be implemented in v9?:

ANOMALY: Messages are blocked if a control is disabled
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17123

I very much appreciate your submitting that one.

Without that it can be quite cumbersome to write extra blocks of code to 
explicitly send those messages if a group is disabled.  But once in 
place, so much becomes so clean and simple.

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