[haXe] Arctic 0.5.0 released

[Ian Liu]

Nice! Will test it ;)

On 1/10/07, Asger Ottar Alstrup <asger at area9.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just submitted 0.5.0 to haxelib. Install with "haxelib install arctic".
>
> The layout algorithm has been redone in this release to fix problems with
> nested LineStacks and LineStacks with many elements in them.
>
> As part of this, the API for CustomBlocks have changed, such that the
> build function has to return a structure containing the resulting MovieClip
> and the dimensions of this clip. Unless you used Dynamic as return type of
> your CustomBlock functions, the errors should be pointed out by the compiler
> and very easy to fix:
>
> Instead of
>
>   function build(...) {
>     ..
>    return myClip;
>  }
>
> you need to write
>
>   function build(...) {
>     ..
>    return { clip: myClip, width: myWidth, height: myHeight };
>  }
>
>
> This is because it turns out that it is not reliable to ask Flash for the
> size of MovieClips - especially in situations where some of the MovieClips
> use a ScrollRect. Therefore you have to tell Arctic manually how big your
> block is when it has been constructed. (On the other hand, this also gives
> you more flexibility: You can lie about your size, and things will work fine
> anyway).
>
> Another effect of the change in layout is that LineStack do not clip in
> the width anymore when a scrollbar is added. This means that the scrollbar
> will be attached to the left of the elements, and thus not obscure any
> contents in the LineStack.
> Yet another change is that a Dragable object only grows in the directions
> mentioned, even when nested in a LineStack. You can see this in the
> ArcticTest demo.
>
> All in all, the new behaviour should be more predictable in complex
> layouts, especially with nested LineStacks.
>
> Regards,
> Asger
>
>
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