[Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the previous icon.

[Paul Swanson]

Thanks Julian,
 
My row heights will vary depending on the length of content, but by
using separate variables for the rowHeight for each row, I'm sure I can
work something out.
 
Thanks for all your great help!
 
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: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:52 AM
	To: Xerte discussion list
	Subject: RE: [Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the previous
icon.
	
	

	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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