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Panoply ·
Currently, we can set the position of a module within a module by either dragging the module around, or using the (x,y) inputs on the mGui module.
It would be helpful, if in addition to outputting the size of the module in width and height, the mGui also output the position within the above module.
I am aware that there are workarounds for this, possibly for example using mouse drag and the xaccum and yaccum primitives ... but they are needlessly 'busy' ways of delivering information that SM must be storing behind the scenes!
Or alternatively, does anyone have an elegant solution to returning these values? 🙂
oddson ·
Obtain position of child module relative to parent
Can I access the offsets frin the GUI frontpanel?
🙂
Panoply ·
lol - my apologies - I should have known I wasn't breaking any new ground.
*shakes fist* one day, dammit!
It is annoying though - the information is right there. Let us at it!
oddson ·
A new thread is as good as a bump... it should be an easy feature to add 'one day' but I guess it's not very high on their list.
Panoply ·
Dammit, I just ran headlong into the not being able to change width and height issue too!
This is possibly even more important - the position - at least you can explicity set that, which is infuriating but workable.
With this one though, I can't see even a way around. I'm trying to rebuild the selector - without using the dropList primitive. This I can do - but I cannot make the new drop list size dynamic, and it very much needs to be to be useful to other people.
I don't mind going through my stuff and being precise about the area the list needs, but most people are not going to want to go into this level.
Infuriating!
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