Hello Fred, I don't have a solution for you but I ran into something once that sounds similar... I dug around and found a comment in one of my scripts:
"The vScroll of groups is limited at the engine level to 32780" I'm not sure where I got this information or if it is still (or ever) valid. Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------ On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Fred Moyer wrote: > The Stack Inspector states that the default maximum width of a stack is > 65535. However, on my Mac I can't set the width of a stack to greater than > 32767 pixels (half of 65534.) Similarly, on page 49 of the User's guide, the > "Maximum size of an object" is given as "Unlimited". But I can't set the > width of an object to greater than 32767. > > What is bizarre is that I can make a control 65534 pixels wide by making the > rect of the control (for example) -32767, 10, 32767,100. However, if I try to > make the rect of the stack "-32767, 10, 32767,100" Revolution crashes or > resizes to a seemingly random rect. > > Are these stated limits actually incorrect or am I misunderstanding > something? Does it work correctly in Windows (maybe this is a Mac problem)? > Does anyone know a workaround to that 32767 limit? And out of curiosity, what > is the significance of that number? Will it soon/ever change? > > I am designing a stack that consists of a single normal-sized card that > contains a normal-sized group whose lockloc is set to true. The group > contains many images placed side-by-side next to one another. One can scroll > to any picture almost instantly by using the group's HScrollbar. This stack > is great but sometimes there are so many images in the group that the > formattedwidth of the group is greater than 32768 -- or would be, but I can't > get to that point while setting up the stack. All kinds of strange things > happen. Incidentally 65535 would be wide enough to accommodate my needs, so > if Revolution simply worked as stated, it would be fine. Any ideas/comments? > > Thanks. > > Fred > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution