O$ creating a drag rectangle on the thick client

[Paul Mulroney]

Hey Bas,

That's very cool!  Create a shape object, and set it to kBobi, and use that to set the bounds - great idea! I always wondered what the $selected property was for - now I know.

Regards,
Paul.


> On 22 Jun 2020, at 2:40 pm, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan.olij at jobbag.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Paul,
> 
> It's been a long time since I played with this type of thing but if I'm not mistaken you can set the property $selected on any window field and it will enable the handles that allow you to move and resize the field, even in runtime.
> 
> So for a rectangle you could simply using a kBobj shape field, turn $selected to true and it can be moved around the window.
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> From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> on behalf of Paul Mulroney <pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au>
> Sent: Monday, 22 June 2020 12:56 PM
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> Subject: O$ creating a drag rectangle on the thick client
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm working on a feature where I want the user to be able to draw a rectangle onto an image on a window in the runtime.  At the moment it's pretty basic - I can track the mouse down and mouse up events, and then it draws the box.  However, it would be really cool if the user saw a rectangle as they moved the mouse after clicking mouse down - like drawing a box in a drawing program.  For double bonus points it'd be awesome if they could later on select the rectangle and resize it.
> 
> I don't think there's any functionality in Omnis that allows us to do that in the runtime.  Has anyone done something like this in the past, and are willing to share?
> 
> Regards,
> Paul.
> 

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