Send the Stack to the Center of the screen.

[richmond62]

This is a big pain-in-the-bum:
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But with some sort of scaling being able to happen things could get considerably better:
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keyBoardActivated being made available on LC Desktop would be a great boon.

[bn]

Here is a stack that simplifies setting the loc of a scaled stack. I has a handler 'setLocation' that is generic enough to be used in other projects (button 'setLoc')

After Stam's very useful explanation and sample stack at the beginning of this topic I figured that a simple way to handle moving scaled stacks would be useful.

It boils down to this

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put "number", "number" into tTargetLoc
put the scaleFactor of stack "myStack" into tScale
put item 1 of targetLoc / tScale into item 1 of tTargetLoc
put item 2 of targetLoc / tScale into item 2 of tTargetLoc
set the topLeft of stack "myStack" to tTargetLoc

That is it and it works.

I added the case that you want to move a scaled paletted stack. I turns out that LC apparently thinks for the top that the title bar of a stack is always the title bar of a topLevel stack which does not quite work for paletted stacks (or I did not find out how).
I resorted to a stunt that creates an invisibe stack on the fly and calculates the difference of the height of the title bar between a toplevel version and a paletted version and added that difference to the coordinates.

Kind regards
Bernd

[richmond62]

I'm a little puzzled by the slippage of your revMenuBar though

Whose revMenuBar would you be referring to? Your comment is a bit decontextualised.

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Oh, and as this is you first postage, welcome to these forums.

How long have you been working with LiveCode?