metacard positioning of objects when window resizes

andu undo at cloud9.net
Wed Dec 4 02:15:00 EST 2002


--On Wednesday, December 04, 2002 17:09:17 +1300 Rodney Tamblyn 
<rtamblyn at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> I'm coming back to Metacard programming after spending some time recently
> in Project Builder and Interface Builder on some other projects.
>
> In Interface Builder when you create an object (button, field etc)  one
> of the properties you can set controls how the position of that object is
> dynamically adjusted when the window is resized.  For example, you can
> specify that the topleft of a field should stay the same, but that the
> bottomright should scale when the window is scaled.  It seems to me that
> having a similar capability in Metacard would be useful.
>
> At present (correct me if I'm wrong) you would need to calculate and
> adjust the size/position of objects using code, and then apply.

Yes but that's done dynamically, the only difference is that the behavior 
is hardcoded in Interface Builder.

>
> Rodney
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Regards, Andu Novac



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