Clipping a group by script

[Craig Newman]

Klaus.

Answered in the forum:

Klaus.

If I make a group and set its height property to a value smaller than the original, the top of the group stays put, and the bottom is truncated, so that is half the battle. If I then play with the scroll of the group, I can control the visible portion.

Craig

> On Oct 11, 2024, at 6:17 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi friends,
> 
> I want to clip a group by script but cannot get it to work!?
> See this image, it shows what i want to achieve:
> <https://major-k.de/temp/group_clipping.png>
> 
> I want the content of the group to be clipped at the top and bottom.
> No problem when resizing manually but no dice by script so far.
> 
> I tried many variations of boundingrect, rect, clipstorect,
> lockloc, height and whatnot.
> 
> Any hints very welcome! :-)
> 
> 
> Best
> 
> Klaus
> 
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> Klaus Major
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> klaus at major-k.de
> 
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