LockLocation of a group

[Jerry J]

I also have been recently surprised to see that a group is 4 pixels bigger on all 4 sides than its parts. Make a new stack, drag in a label field, hit group and watch the handles grow. Is this supposed to be this way?

--Jerry Jensen

On Apr 10, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Pete,
> 
> I think this is a bug. AFAIK it only work when you move an object but not when you resize it. I'm not sure about hiding and showing, I guess this doesn't work either and I think I like it that way.
> 
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> On 11 apr 2011, at 01:41, Pete wrote:
> 
>> I vaguely remember a discussion about this once before but I need to ask
>> about this again.
>> 
>> The dictionary says "If the *lockLocation* of a group is false, the group is
>> automatically resized when the objects in it are moved, resized, hidden, or
>> shown."  I'm not seeing that behavior.  I have a combobox menu in a group
>> and the group's lockloc is false.  When I resize the combobox, as as it hits
>> the boundary of the group, that parts of it that would be outside the group
>> disappear.
>> 
>> Am I misunderstanding something or is the dictionary wrong?
>> 
>> 
>>  Pete
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