Stack window/screen sizes

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks to all for the replies.  It sounds like I'm faced with a huge  
amount of work!  Maybe I'm oversimplifying this but it sure would be  
nice to able to specify by script "reduce/enlarge all the controls on  
this card by x% horizontally and y% vertically".

I'm still unclear as to whether the Geometry manager can help with  
this.  I've never used it but the documentation seems to indicate that  
it takes effect when the user resizes a window.  Does it come into  
play when the window size is changed by script?   It seems that the  
geometry manager works at the individual control level so the next  
question in my mind is how to deal with all the controls hidden within  
datagrids which I don't have access to.

I'm considering another approach to this.  I asked a question on the  
list a couple of days ago about how to get scroll bars on a stack  
window and the answer was to group all the controls on the card  
together and specify scroll bars for the group.  In some cases that  
would result in 3 or 4 levels of group nesting which is a pain to work  
with in the IDE but could be an acceptable workaround for the user.

Pete Haworth

On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:

> Basically, you set the positions and sizes of all your objects in  
> the 'resizestack' message (Look it up in the dictionary). Beware  
> that you need to use the 'width' and 'height' of the card, or the  
> parameters supplied to the message, not the 'rectangle' of the stack  
> (because the stack rect is relative to the 'screenrect').
> Additionally on 'opencard', or on 'startup', you set the rect of the  
> stack to something that fits onto the screen.
> People do expect you to keep their chosen window size between  
> launches. If you save settings somewhere, you can simply save the  
> rect of the stack there, and retrieve it from there again on  
> 'openstack'.
>
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> On 21 Dec 2010, at 03:53, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> I just installed my app on a computer other than the one it was  
>> developed on and breathed a sigh of relief when everything still  
>> worked... EXCEPT that the stack window sizes do not quite fit  
>> vertically on the new computer.
>>
>> I think this is because the screen resolution on the developing  
>> computer is 1680x1050 and on the computer I installed it on, it's  
>> 1280x800 (and there is no 1680x1050 res available). How do I deal  
>> with this? Is this what the Geometry manager is for and if so, is  
>> there good tutorial out there for it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pete Haworth
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