Re: Custom Control Design Tutorial

2010-03-28 Thread BNig
Len, I liked the idea of a water tank and made a revlet that consists of the tank. You can drag the tank around, set width and height by sliders or fill the tank with a number. Be patient with the revlet: it somehow took 30 plus seconds before it responded to user input.(???) It is a self-containe

Re: Custom Control Design Tutorial

2010-03-27 Thread Len Morgan
That's what I was afraid of, but then, I should only have to figure it out once. len On 3/27/2010 12:42 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Len Morgan wrote: This actually brings up another question though: There are some cases of tanks in the current system that display the feet of water

Re: Custom Control Design Tutorial

2010-03-27 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Len Morgan wrote: > This actually brings up another question though: There are some cases of > tanks in the current system that display the feet of water in the tank > next to the tank, and some where the number is shown IN the tank. If we > temporarily ignore how I'd let the user move

Re: Custom Control Design Tutorial

2010-03-27 Thread Len Morgan
Maybe *I'm* the one that's misinterpreted the question! :-) I think what you're telling me is that I'm over engineering the problem and that all I'm really after is a self-contained group that has all of the functions I'd need to manipulate the tank which I would then copy (or clone?) as many

Re: Custom Control Design Tutorial

2010-03-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'm not sure what would make your "object" not be portable? the main things to look out for are: Changing the rectangle or location will of course change some movement dependant scripts. you need to look out for that if you do graphical stuff (like resizing a water level graphic for your tank).