Smart Layouts Revisited
by Matt Petrowsky
21 minutes
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After spending more time with the original Layout Properties, sent in by Fabrice Nordmann, I decided to revise his approach. I personally wanted to use a single text field to control how a Layout would render.
My revisions to this method are included in the technique file for this video.
Watch this video if you want to learn a powerful method for controlling how your layouts are rendered. Using a dedicated layout object, you can reduce the total number of steps in many of your scripts. Full window control can be harnessed when using this technique - it's something I would consider core to any solution!
Details: Released - 5/7/2007 / Size - 24.93 MB / Length - 21 min
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The missing script part
Hi Matt!
Great to watch your videos, as always. This technique is really useful, and I like how easy it is to set up the behavior of ANY window I choose. However, I could use some help getting the "script" part up and running. You mention in the video that this particular part is "as is"... in it's original form!
Since some things are missing from the script: Set Field [; 1] and a "Left ( Evaluate ( Quote ( ) ) ; 4) = "S4HU"", it's sort of difficult to figure out where to go from here, AND since you probably have some kind of secret access to these parts ;-), perhaps it would be possible for you to give a clue to what is needed in order to get this part running? - Thanks