Tutorial explanation object lib for creating a multiplatform splitter?

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 --- On Mon 05/10, Jan Schenkel < janschenkel at yahoo.com > wrote:
From: Jan Schenkel [mailto: janschenkel at yahoo.com]
To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 14:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Tutorial explanation object lib  for creating a multiplatform splitter?

--- Kevin <nnoydb at excite.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> My definition follows a more "windows" slighted<br>> definition.  When one uses the file explorer the<br>> right border of the folder listed tree control is a<br>> splitter it splits and allows resizeing of the<br>> folder listing.<br>> <br>> K<br>> <br><br>Hi Kevin,<br><br>It looks like we're actually talking about the same<br>thing -- the only difference being the example I gave<br>was horizontal, and yours is vertical.<br>So when you look at the code in the horizontal<br>splitter, all you need to take into account is that<br>it's in the other direction.<br>In its most basic form, here's the code for a vertical<br>splitter button between two fields.<br><br>--<br><br>local sTrackingFlag, sMinLeft, sMaxRight<br><br>on mouseDown<br>  -- flip the tracking switch<br>  put true into sTrackingFlag<br>  -- and save the boundaries<br>  put the width of me DIV 2 into tMargin<br>  put the left of field "LeftField" + 16 + tMargin \<br>      into sMinLeft<br>  put the right of field "RightField" - 16 - tMargin \<br>      into sMaxRight<br>  -- and calculate my margin<br>end mouseDown<br><br>on mouseMove x,y<br>  if sTrackingFlag is true then<br>    -- first move this button within boundaries<br>    put min(sMaxRight,max(sMinLeft,x)) into tX<br>    put the location of me into tLocation<br>    put tX into item 1 of tLocation<br>    set the location of me to tLocation<br>    -- then update the field on the left hand side<br>    put the rect of field "LeftField" into tRect<br>    put the left of me into item 3 of tRect<br>    set the rect of field "LeftField" to tRect<br>    -- then update the field on the right hand side<br>    put the rect of field "RightField" into tRect<br>    put the right of me into item 1 of tRect<br>    set the rect of field "RightField" to tRect<br>  end if<br>end mouseMove<br><br>on mouseUp<br>  put false into sTrackingFlag<br>end mouseUp<br><br>on mouseRelease<br>  put false into sTrackingFlag<br>end mouseRelease<br><br>--<br><br>Hope this helped,<br><br>Jan Schenkel.<br><br>=====<br>"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)<br><br><br>	<br>		<br>__________________________________<br>Do you Yahoo!?<br>Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs  <br>http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover <br>_______________________________________________<br>use-revolution mailing list<br>use-revolution at lists.runrev.com<br>http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution<br>

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