lockUpdates

Type

property

Summary

When a control within a group is resized or moved it causes all parents to recalculate their bounds appropriately. The lockUpdates property of the group prevents this behavior.

Syntax

set the lockUpdates of <group> to {true | false}

Description

Use the lockUpdates property to temporarily prevent parent controls from recalculating their size when a child object changes position or size.

When a control within a group is resized or moved it causes all parents to recalculate their bounds appropriately. This action can now be temporarily suspended by using the lockUpdates property of the group.

Typically, you'll want to set the lockUpdates of a group to true before performing moving or resizing child controls, and then turn it back to false afterwards.

note

The lockUpdates property does not nest and the group will not resize itself appropriately based on the child controls until it is set back to false.

Examples

set the lockUpdates of group 1 to true

on updateGroupedControls
   set the lockUpdates of group 1 to true
   set the left of button 1 of group 1 to 5
   set the bottom of button 2 of group 1 to 10 
   set the lockUpdates of group 1 to false
end updateGroupedControls

Related

message: resizeControl

property: lockLocation

Compatibility and Support

Introduced

LiveCode 6.1

OS

mac

windows

linux

ios

android

Platforms

desktop

server

mobile