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Hi,

I am trying to put together a group with some controls and want do position them very precisely.
Is there a zoom tool out there that can help me?

Thanks,
Marc

Hi Marc,

If I understand you correctly this thread should be useful for you
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... oom#p79421
Best regards
Jean-Marc

Hi Jean-Marc,

Thank you for that link but I was actually looking for something the is useful while working in developer mode to precisely put controls in the IDE.
I am now looking at a tool called Zoom It by Appatit Inc. I wonder what it would take to make this in LC?

Any other suggestions
Best regards,
Marc

By the way. I seem to remember a stack that zoomed in under the cursor but can't find it anymore.

Best regards,
Marc

Hi Marc,

have a look at

http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/757/GridDrawer

If I understand what you want then you can change the grid size on the fly for objects you are positioning and you can turn on/off "snapToGrid" on the fly with this little tool.

Put it into your plug-ins folder to access it from the Development-> plugins menu or start open it as you would any stack.

You start by pulling off a group to the card you are editing from the stack. The group is placed on your card. You can drag the group around. Delete the group with the delete symbol to remove it completley from you card/stack.

I think that is about as fine grained as it get with Livecode.

Kind regards

Bernd

Hi Brend,

that helped, thanks. An extra zoom would be even better I think.

Best regards,
Marc

MarcVanCauwenberghe wrote:Hi Brend,

that helped, thanks. An extra zoom would be even better I think.

Best regards,
Marc

Or even better, a "snap to" setting that would auto align objects that are within 5 pixels on either horizontal or vertical lines.

magice wrote:Or even better, a "snap to" setting that would auto align objects that are within 5 pixels on either horizontal or vertical lines.

something like this is already build in, see -> Preferences: Appearance: Grid spacing

There is also "Tiny Loupe" by Dar Scott.
It should be in your plugins folder.
It stopped working when the export snapshot was broken but works in ver 6.6.1

Oh, it also works on just your main monitor if you use more than 1.

Simon

MarcVanCauwenberghe wrote: that helped, thanks. An extra zoom would be even better I think.

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Hi,

An extra zoom would be even better I think.

As of LiveCode 6.6 and later there is put that into the message box and your stack will enlarge

Charles Buchwald has made a wonderful plug-in
lcResTool and lcMover

http://buchwald.ca/developer-tools/

Check it out, you can use it with "GridDrawer"


Kind regards
Bernd

Interresting link, thanks Bernd.

Thank you Bernd!

Regards,
Marc