rotation, printing

[mikr2003]

Hello,

I’m new here and I’m working on a small project.
I have a couple of questions and hope that you could help me.

1) How can I rotate fields, buttons to be able to write a text from up to down.
2) I have a stack. Its width is 1622 and height is 588. How could I resize the stack to A4 with saving positions of my objects? My goal is to print it out in this size.

Thanks so much in advance for your help.
Konstantin

[Klaus]

Hi Konstantin,

welcome to the forum!

1) How can I rotate fields, buttons to be able to write a text from up to down.

fields and buttons cannot be rotated, however there is a widget, which will let you rotate text, check this page:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... xt#p167477

2) I have a stack. Its width is 1622 and height is 588. How could I resize the stack to A4 with saving positions of my objects? My goal is to print it out in this size.

You can "force" to print the big stack into a certain (smaller) rect:

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...
## DIN A4
print this stack into 0,0,595,842
...

Best

Klaus

[ClipArtGuy]

Fields and buttons can not be rotated, but another option is to "export snapshot" your fields and buttons and rotate those by setting the "angle" property.

[FourthWorld]

If setting the print orientation would suffice, see:

https://livecode.com/resources/api/#liv ... rientation

[mikr2003]

You can "force" to print the big stack into a certain (smaller) rect:

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...
## DIN A4
print this stack into 0,0,595,842
...

Where do I have to put it in? in the Message Box?

Thanks

Konstantin

[Klaus]

Hi Konstantin

well, wherever you want to print your stack, be it in the message box or in a button script...


Best

Klaus

[mikr2003]

You can "force" to print the big stack into a certain (smaller) rect:

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...
## DIN A4
print this stack into 0,0,595,842
...

I’m sorry! I put it in the message box, pressed Enter, closed the message box, chose Print Card, but without result.

What did I do wrong?

Thanks.

[Klaus]

Hi Konstantin,

of course I meant that you need to put it into the script of your button (?) which does the printing.

If issued in the message box, which is also a stack, maybe the message box gets printed.
-> THIS STACK refers to the stack the command has been issued in, in this case the message box stack!

If you want to use the message box, type:

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print stack "your stack to be printed here!" into 0,0,595,842

Best

Klaus

[mikr2003]

If you want to use the message box, type:

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print stack "your stack to be printed here!" into 0,0,595,842

Message execution error:
Error description: Chunk: can't find stack
Hint:

Why?

Thanks.

[Klaus]

Did you really enter exactly this:

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print stack "your stack to be printed here!" into 0,0,595,842

?

[mikr2003]

Did you really enter exactly this:

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print stack "your stack to be printed here!" into 0,0,595,842

?

Yes, I did.

Thanks.

[Klaus]

Ouch, do you really have a stack named "your stack to be printed here!" that you want to print?

Or maybe you just want to replace "your stack to be printed here!" with the name of your stack?

[bogs]

If you want to use the message box, type:

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print stack "your stack to be printed here!" into 0,0,595,842

Did you really enter exactly this:

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print stack "your stack to be printed here!" into 0,0,595,842

?

... replace "your stack to be printed here!" with the name of your stack ...

Heh, you probably should have said to replace that a couple posts up Klaus

@ mikr2003, Just for future reference, not all code posted on the boards should be taken literally, although it can be confusing.

If you see a line with "your [object name] here", that is telling you to replace what is within the quotes with the actual name you chose for that object

[Klaus]

No comment!

[bogs]