Message: 16
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:25:25 -0500
From: J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Setting visible of control within group to false
Message-ID: 4e8900f5.3010...@hyperactivesw.com
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Is this supposed to happen? When I set the visible of a control within a group
to false, it is removed from the group.
As a work-around I find that if I include a rectangle that physically
encompasses everything in the group and THEN set the visible of a control
within the rectangle to false,
Jim:
Are you sure the control gets physically placed outside the group? Are you
using any scripts to manipulate object layers?
Doing a quick test here with a single object in a group, I don't see your
result (v4.6.4). The rect of a group does indeed collapse to encompass
only its visible
Scott,
Thanks for your reply.
My mistake. It is not removed from the group. What happens is that the
dimensions of the group change when an outside control is made invisible.
My script did something line this:
--With the outside button invisible
set the visible of button myButton to true --
On 10/2/11 3:24 PM, James Hurley wrote:
Scott,
Thanks for your reply.
My mistake. It is not removed from the group. What happens is that
the dimensions of the group change when an outside control is made
invisible.
That's the default behavior, where a group resizes to accomodate its
Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com
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Sent: Sun, Oct 2, 2011 10:53 am
Subject: Re: Setting visible of control within group to false
Jim:
Are you sure the control gets physically placed outside the group? Are you
using any scripts to manipulate object
On Oct 2, 2011, at 7:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 10/2/11 3:24 PM, James Hurley wrote:
Scott,
Thanks for your reply.
My mistake. It is not removed from the group. What happens is that
the dimensions of the group change when an outside control is made
invisible.
That's the default
