[Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the previous icon.

[Julian Tenney]

To do the table I would do this:

 

Add a script, call it setup:

 

colWidth = 120;

rowHeight = 40;

xStart = 20;

yStart = 20;

 

Add a decision icon, with a page for each column; each page has the same
number of textIcons in it;

 

Set the decision icon to erase = 0; eraseOnExit = 0; id = cols

 

For the text icons:

Set x to xStart + icon.parentNode.index() * colWidth

Set y to yStart + icon.index() * rowHeight

Set w to colWidth;

 

Then draw the table afterward the decision with this script:

 

colCount = cols.pages.length;

rowCount = cols.pages[0].children.length;

 

cols.lineStyle(1,0x000000,100);

cols.beginFill(0xFFFFFF,100);

 

for (i = 0; i <= colCount; i++){

  cols.moveTo(xStart + i*colWidth, yStart);

  cols.lineTo(xStart + i*colWidth, yStart + rowCount * rowHeight);

}

 

for (i = 0; i <= rowCount; i++){

  cols.moveTo(xStart, yStart + i * rowHeight);

  cols.lineTo(xStart + colCount * colWidth, yStart + i * rowHeight);

}

 

Then you can just play around with the code to do exactly what you need.

 

J

 

 

 

 

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:38 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the previous icon.

 

I guess I still have to fiddle a bit with the + amount, because I have
to set the h parameter for the drawBorder to work, and it doesn't
precisely match the gutter height. But it's only ever a couple of pixels
off. It varies whenever the text wraps to multiple lines. Is there a way
to calculate the height based on the textSize for a particular font?

 

Still way easier than how I was doing it!

 

P

	 

	
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	From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
	Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:02 PM
	To: Xerte discussion list
	Subject: RE: [Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the previous
icon.

	Yes, _ytile + 11 worked (I have setGutter at 5, plus the border
line height to take into account). And icon.previousSibling.clip()._y
for the adjacent cells on the same row. I guess my expression was just
missing the clip() method. I had tried both _y and y.

	 

	Patrick, I'm setting this on the property panel of the text
icon, not in a script. The script just draws the border and sets the
gutter.

	 

	Geez, don't you guys ever sleep? It must be 11pm in the UK!
Thanks for the speedy response!

	 

	Paul

		 

		
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		From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
		Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:08 PM
		To: Xerte discussion list
		Subject: RE: [Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the
previous icon.

		try _ytile

		 

		It gives you the value of icon.previousSibling.clip()._y
+ icon.previousSibling.clip()._height. I usually put _ytile + 10 in the
y property.

		 

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		From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of
Paul Swanson
		Sent: Wed 19/11/2008 21:59
		To: Xerte discussion list
		Subject: [Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the
previous icon.

		 

		I'm attempting to build a table using multiple text
icons. I'm using individual text icons for each cell in combination with
drawBorder in a script icon. I've been manually computing the y
coordinate by adding the height of the previous icon to the y coordinate
of the previous icon. It's time consuming, and I'm thinking there must
be a better way. I've tried variations of icon.previousSibling._y, but
it seems to be returning 0 (or, more likely, undefined) because it
always ends up at y=0.

		I've currently got icon.previousSibling.attributes.y +
icon.previousSibling.attributes.h as the y property, but that makes the
text disappear completely (perhaps it's off the stage?). Do I just have
the wrong property, or is this because the properties of the
previousSibling are unknown when the next icon is encountered?

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		 Harland Financial Solutions 
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