NAVRAD was: lcb missing manual

Fri Sep 9 09:54:29 EDT 2022

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Brian Milby
brian at milby7.com

> On Sep 9, 2022, at 9:40 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Throwing NavRAD into my extensions folder doesn't seem to install it. I
> wonder why.
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:19 PM Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> by the way, isn't it crazy how much overhead is required with lcb widgets?
>> there is so...much...stuff you have to put on top just to get to the heart
>> of the thing.
>> and i'm never going to like the way lc embeds the comments in the source
>> of anything.
>> or the way they spell "favourites", or pronounce "Aluminum". Do you see an
>> extra "i" in there? No? It's invisible, that's why.
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:00 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think the user is going to need to code the width adjustment in the
>>> resizeStack handler.  Widgets can’t change their rect on their own.  It has
>>> to happen from the LCS side.
>>> 
>>> Brian Milby
>>> brian at milby7.com
>>> 
>>>> On Sep 6, 2022, at 3:29 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Mike,
>>>> 
>>>> For future reference the source is in the .lce file. The .lce is in zip
>>> format. Temporarily change the extension to .zip. You will see the lcb file
>>> in there. Also when you install it the source will be in the extension
>>> folder. But since I posted .lce I have put in comments starting with "RAD
>>> Change" to show where I have made changes. Here is the link to the updated
>>> source==>https://www.dropbox.com/s/bv930usovpruo5e/navrad.lcb?dl=0
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for taking a look!
>>>> 
>>>> Also I found that after I updated the docs that the docs are generated
>>> from the lcb file. I re-built the widget and boom my doc changes were
>>> destroyed. No problem I just had redo the docs for my changes in the lcb
>>> file. So many unknowns. I am trying to find a way to resize it to the card
>>> width with a user setting for height percent of card width. But the docs
>>> are so scant and confusing I feel the giant headache coming on again.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ralph DiMola
>>>> IT Director
>>>> Evergreen Information Services
>>>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
>>> Behalf Of Mike Kerner via use-livecode
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2022 3:00 PM
>>>> To: How to use LiveCode
>>>> Cc: Mike Kerner
>>>> Subject: Re: NAVRAD was: lcb missing manual
>>>> 
>>>> Ralph,
>>>> got the source, somewhere? i'd like to learn from it.
>>>> testing to begin...now.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 1:32 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I took a major stab at LCB and created a new widget based on the
>>>>> navbar widget. I have made 2 changes to the navbar and call it navrad.
>>>>> It does not modify the stock navbar. With almost no docs it was a
>>>>> challenge. There were so many unknowns I got a few giant headaches. It
>>>>> adds 4 new properties(iconFill,autoRADHilite,preHilitedItem,
>>>>> preHilitedItemName) and 1 new message(preHiliteChanged). I updated the
>>>>> documentation so the new properties and message show in the dictionary
>>>>> with example(search for "navrad" or just "rad").
>>>>> One thing I ran into was that I had to call the "autohilite" property
>>>>> autoRADHilite because using any existing property causes a confilict
>>>>> that I could not get around without sufficient docs. It does show in
>>>>> the property inspector as "auto hilite". These changes allow
>>>>> 1)enlarge/center the icon if there is no label 2)intercept a selection
>>>>> before it is hilited and make a choice to hilite and send the stock
>>>>> hiliteChanged message (or not). Why no label? For one social media
>>> icons don’t need labels. Why a pre message?
>>>>> Someone suggested it and I thought it was a great idea. Backwards
>>>>> compatible with existing navbar LCS code. The was an auto sizing to
>>>>> card width request. I will look to see if I can do it without more
>>> docs(or help).
>>>>> 
>>>>> If anyone would like to try it and find any bugs it's at ==>
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/51zm4m8dip49jov/com.livecode.widget.navrad.2
>>>>> .0.0.lce?dl=0
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ralph DiMola
>>>>> IT Director
>>>>> Evergreen Information Services
>>>>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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