Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!jkc
From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Changing the width of script windows.
Message-ID: <47331@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 01:00:35 GMT
References: <10717@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 28


In article <10717@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> dmittman@beowulf.JPL.NASA.GOV
(David Mittman) writes:
>Anyone have any idea about how to change the width of script windows
>under HyperTalk control?

The script editor saves the locations of script windows in a HyperTalk
global, "scriptWindowRects".  Whenever you move, resize, or close a
script window, the editor updates this global.  Whenever a script is
opened, it scans scriptWindowRects for a rectangle that no other script
window currently occupies.  The first unused rectangle becomes the
boundary for the new script window.

If there are no unused rectangles in scriptWindowRects, the script editor
calculates a location based on screen size.  You can set up your scripting
environment on startUp by putting rectangles, one per line, into
scriptWindowRects (and be sure to declare it as a global).

For example:

   put "0,0,599,400" into scriptWindowRects

where scriptWindowRects is a global.


Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Team
Apple Computer, Inc.