On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Ivan Powis wrote:
> > # To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :
> > > I still want the user the be able to resize the form normally.
> > > Thinking up a name for every single object in the form so I can call
> > > fl_set_object_resize on all of them isn't a very pleasant
> > > proposition.
> >
> > Then do it in fdesign.
>
> I think he may mean he wants normal behaviour (ie full resizing) as
> the default behaviour for user interaction, but on occasions wants to
> achieve the special effect described. So doing it in fdesign isn't
> giving the required flexibility.
Yes, that's exactly what I want.
> I haven't tried this but it looks like the FL_FORM structure holds
> pointers to the beginning and end of a linked list of all FL_OBJECTS
> on the form. Couldn't you step through the objects doing a
> fl_set_object_resize() on them, do your programmatic trickery, and
> finally step through again resetting them to resize normal. No need to
> know fdesign names etc.
spl posted some code that does this. I'll have to try it out, but all this
saving and restoring of gravities seems very ugly. I just want to have the
objects not adjust their size at all.
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