Group resizing.

[Alex Tweedly]

David,

thank you - that's a kind and generous offer to Zoom / pair on it. 
However, since the immediate problem is solved, I'd rather take a 
raincheck, and keep your offer in my back pocket for some future time I 
have a problem.

Summary of this case - when you do resizing based on groups, you should 
be sure to have the lockLocation of the groups set true.

I had a silly typo
    set the top of something to the bottom of another+10
and I had
    set the top of something to the bottom of another+1000

If lockLocation had been set, that would have been trivially obvious, 
and fixed in 30 seconds. However, it wasn't, so the group grew out of 
scale and obscured  most of the window, including where the problematic 
controls should have been - so I couldn't see they had gone astray..

And by bad luck, when I started adding "put .... to msg" statements, I 
happened to span a bit of code that *only* tried to change X 
coordinates, and was actually changing Y coords (because of group 
inclusion). So I spent a long time down a rabbit hole of trying to see 
find which code could be doing that, not realizing this "feature" that 
changing one dimension would expand both dimensions of the group.

Thanks again,

Alex.

P.S. any thoughts on another group Zoom for Livecoders ? Haven't heard 
more from Heather (and they may be busy), so maybe we should try to 
arrange a community get-together ?


On 04/05/2020 10:09, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote:
> Trying to understand this thread. I’ve been doing nested group resizing for all my work now for several years - it has been difficult often to debug track errors because of all the nested messages.
>
> As a result I’ve had to make a bunch of tools to test each nested element before they are combined, and also I’ve developed a consistent style of doing it - which may mean that I’m not coming across the issue you report.
>
> My suggestion Alex is the only way to explore this is to jump into a Zoom where we can share practice and see visually the issue? It would also be more fun at this time if lock down?
>
> Feel free to pick a time if that appeals - I got nothing better to do :)
>
> • https://woven.com/c/david62/pairprogramming
>
> On 4 May 2020, 01:38 +0100, scott--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> Oh good, I was hoping I wasn’t the only one.
>>
>> —
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>> On May 3, 2020, at 11:28 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>> I can now get back to my "10-minute cleanup task" that I started 8 hours ago :-)
>>>
>>> Alex.
>>
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