Changiing the height of a stack

Pete (Molly's Revenge) pete at mollysrevenge.com
Fri Jan 21 19:57:34 EST 2011


So why is the checkbox even there?  And, with respect, there is something to
lock - the top left of the card when you change its height via script,
that's all I want to use it for.
Pete

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 1/21/11 4:22 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> Thanks Scott and Klaus, that works for me.  Anyone know why the card
>> property inspector lockloc check box for the card is greyed out?
>>
>
> Because it doesn't apply. Lockloc only applies to objects that change size
> automatically when redrawn (like images) or which can be moved by the mouse.
> In those cases you lock them so that they either won't resize, or so you
> won't accidentally move them around. You can't drag cards around inside the
> stack window, and their dimensions never change unless you specifically do
> it, so there is nothing to lock.
>
> Stacks don't have a lockloc property either. You can always drag them by
> their titlebar if it's showing, and their dimensions are fixed and never
> change automatically. Instead, we have the resizeable property to prevent
> user resizing, and we can hide the titlebar to prevent dragging.
>
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