how to use the scale geometry property of an object?

[Brian Milby]

Are you talking about the geometry manager? I’ll be talking about that at LCG next month.

One thing you’re going to need to handle manually will be the aspect ratio. The GM does not have the ability to do that automatically (that I know of).

To prevent accumulation of small errors in your resize handler, you need to use constants for the relative position of objects. So the object is x% from the left/top/right/bottom. That is how the GM works.
On Jun 12, 2018, 5:24 AM -0500, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have a full-window image and need dozens of clickable transparent polygons
> on top of it, shaping details of the image. My idea was, that all these
> polygons could be resized and positioned automatically by the scaling
> property of the object, when resizing the stack.
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> I have never used the geometry propertry section of an object to scale it
> and I don't see actually how it works.
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> My idea was, that when activated, the object would scale automatically, if I
> resize the stack, but nothing happens with the object. Obviously it's not
> that easy, as I thought, or I am missing something vital.
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> I also tested to resize each object in the resizeStack handler by script by
> the resized proportions of the stack, but this gives very inaccurate results
> because of rounding the small factors of all the small resize steps, while
> resizing a stack by dragging the window.
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> Any hint, on how to use the scale property of an object?
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> Thanks
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> Tiemo
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