Best or easiest way to make a vertical scrolling area with fields and buttons

[mrcoollion]

Hi all,

I have too many fields and buttons on one card and I am wondering.
What is the best/easiest way to make and maintain a vertical scrolling area in my card in which I can place all the Buttons and fields I need ?

Regards,

Paul

[richmond62]

Well, personally I'd just group everything and then set the Vertical scroll to true.
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[mrcoollion]

Ok, but how do I get objects past the card hight?

PS. Thanks for the tip and the sample!

[mrcoollion]

Found out how to put objects past the card hight (I think).

1) Make group height larger than the card (stack) height.
2) In run mode scroll up.
3) Then edit group and the area you scrolled to will be the area you can edit objects in.

Any other way's ?

[Klaus]

way's

OUCH, this hurts!

[mrcoollion]

OUCH, this hurts!

Well it would be nice if I would have been able to scroll the group in edit mode

[FourthWorld]

Well it would be nice if I would have been able to scroll the group in edit mode

Does your app provide the pointer tool for your users, or are you referring to your own development work while making layouts in the IDE?

[PBH]

You could try setting the stack scaleFactor to something like "0.75", then you can temporarily increase the depth of your stack and group for editing. Reset the size of the group and stack before setting the scaleFactor back to 1.

It does work pretty well, but be prepared for some small editing anomalies like dropping controls onto the card puts them in odd positions and you may need a good pair of glasses!

Paul

[FourthWorld]

If you need a scrolling area of a specific size you can see the group's backsize property:
https://livecode.com/resources/api/#liv ... t/backsize

[mrcoollion]

Does your app provide the pointer tool for your users, or are you referring to your own development work while making layouts in the IDE?

I am referring to my own development work while making the layouts in the IDE.

Thanks Klaus, Paul and Richard for the great tips.

[cpuandnet]

OUCH, this hurts!

Well it would be nice if I would have been able to scroll the group in edit mode

Open your message box and use the following command to scroll the group.

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set the vScroll of group "yourGroupName" to 100

The number you use (100 in this example) is really a hunt and peck method until you scroll to the area you desire. LC will automatically set the vScroll value to the max value if you try and use a number larger than the max. You can find the max vScroll value by executing the following command in the message box.

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put the formattedHeight of group "yourGroupName" - the height of group "yourGroupName"

This assumes you already have controls past the height of the group using one of the previously mentioned methods.