Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

[Devin Asay]

On Jun 12, 2017, at 11:45 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> 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.

It’s not visible in the PI, but it’s not hard to add. I’d be happy to make a pull request for it. The main question is what would be the “readable label” of this property? (My current favorite is the first one.)

  - Group rect remains fixed
  - Fixed group rect
  - Lock group rect
  - Group rect is fixed
  - Don’t change group rect
  - Group rect is independent of child controls
  - Prevent group rect size when child objects move or resize

It’s a tricky balance between clear enough and short enough.

Ideas?

Devin



Devin Asay
Director
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University