How to use addEventListener for browser window resizing in web deployment?

[harrison at all-auctions.com]

Hi Andreas,

I have found the following website to be very helpful with a lot of my javascript projects.

Do you know about these guys?

https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp <https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp>

I hope that helps you.

Cheers,

Rick

> On Aug 6, 2022, at 7:44 AM, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> So I’ve been experimenting with web deployment with LC 10 dp 4. Now I would like my stack to be able to react to resizeStack events when the browser window is resized by the user. Or to adapt to e.g. a mobile browser screen size.
> 
> For this, if I understand correctly, some javascript needs to be used. I’ve tried to piece together how to do that from these sources:
> https://livecode.com/using-the-new-web-features-in-livecode-10-dp-1/
> 
> and Ali Lloyd’s cool WordLC app:
> https://alilloyd.livecodehosting.com/wordlc/wordlc.html
> 
> where he uses window.addEventListener(”resize” […] etc in the html file to catch browser window resizing for the stack to react on. However, as I can’t see his LC script side of it, I fail to figure out the proper adaptation to my needs:
> 
> I want my stack to get, from javascript, the impulse that the browser window has changed its width/height and what the new width/height is, in order to trigger a normal resizeStack handler to deal with that.
> 
> Ideally, the javascript part of this should be included by LC in the standalone build, and I hope that’s what they plan at least when LC10 stable ships (seems logical), but in the meantime - can someone please help get the code right?
> 
> /Andreas
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