[Xerte] Re: setting button width dynamically?

[Ron Mitchell]

Ok cheers - understood and works great!

Setting the button width based on  a multiplication of the number of
characters entered for the button label so that in can be a few words rather
than one - working well!

Cheers

Ron

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 09 February 2012 11:10
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: setting button width dynamically?

 

You don't need the {}. Set butW upfront and refr to it directly in the
properties field. IT doesn't need expressioning - that is done in the
engine.

 

Before you ask 'why do I need it for paths', there are two steps in that
case, going from FileLocation + 'blah.file' to 'http://myPathetc' and then
evaluating that string for the actual path.

 

Numbers are numbers.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 09 February 2012 11:06
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] setting button width dynamically?

 

Just been quickly trying to dynamically set the width of a button either
before it loads or after it has loaded e.g.

 

tried buttonw=150; in a script before the button

then w property of the button set as {buttonw} e.g. as the expression value

setting the label of the button in this way works fine so not sure why
setting the width isn't?

 

Also tried with a script after the button to resize it after loading e.g.
mybutton._width=buttonwidth;

 

what stupid mistake am I making? ;-)

 

Cheers

Ron

 

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