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User: Yelena 12 years ago
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I am having a lot of trouble resizing objects and trying to align them using Size and Position arrows. It happens when I need to adjust it just one-two points. For example, if I try to move an object to the right using Up arrow it first moves it down, and vise versa. Resizing sometimes does the same thing - rather then increasing the size it will move the object first. It seems to be messed up. Sometimes it works fine but it is impossible to rely and sometimes it takes many moves back and forth to get it right...
------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: Roddy 12 years ago
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Reducing an objects width will appear to move it to the left since the content is being pushed to the left because the width of the container is being reduced. Object positioning is a bit confusing until you get your head around it. Objects are positioned on both the x and y axis in relation to a zero point. When you want to move an object to the left, you would reduce the number in the X box and therefore need to click the down arrow. Similarly, when you want to move an object up the page you need to reduce it's Y value so you need to click the down arrow to go up! Having an understanding of how CSS positions and sizes objects is probably more important when using a drag and drop app than using code entry since just about every object you put on the page has to have both size and position specified. Code entry, in the main, doesn't require all this since the objects are positioned by their order in the HTML. This is one of the main reasons why drag and drop created sites need a lot more code than those using code entry and, therefore, take longer to download in the browser. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Yelena 12 years ago
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Roddy, I guess I didn't make myself clear here....:) I know how positioning works (not in terms of code but practically speaking, on the page here) The problem is it does the opposite movement first, before the correct one. Let's say I want to move the object to the right by using the "X" - instead of moving it to the right it first moves it down... If I want to move it up by using "Y" it first moves it to the right... After that first wrong move it does it correctly. However when I need to move it in either direction (left/right or up/down) just one point it is almost impossible. Yesterday I just had to position one object on the page and then copy/paste it to all other pages because I couldn't properly position it by using "X" and "Y" - it would always be a point off in either direction....It seems like a bug... ------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: Roddy 12 years ago
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Ah, now I see what you mean and yes, it looks like a bug. When I drag an object and then reduce x by one point, the object moves both in the x and y axis down and to the left. ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Yelena 12 years ago
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Yes, sometimes both, sometimes just in the opposite direction - very annoying....:)
------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: pumpkin 12 years ago
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Same happens to me quite often when I click and Object and start moving it. It jumps one pixel to the left or top mostly.
------------------------------- Darian new to web design ______________________ My websites: <b>Vocal Affairs</b> // <b>Singkehlchen</b> |
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