Re: Top and left canvas sides are not affected by enabled autobounding.

[Damon Chaplin <damonachaplin gmail com>]

On 7 May 2011 17:40, Nikita Zlobin <nick87720z gmail com> wrote:
> В Sat, 7 May 2011 20:19:00 +0600
> Nikita Zlobin <nick87720z gmail com> пишет:
>
>> For now i made it impossible to move modules out of these two sides,
>> later - still hope, that they may be expanded manually, just by
>> setting properties of canvas object, and fix it by self for some time
>> (at least for gtk2 version).
>>
>>
>> Imho, such restriction doesn't make any good sence.
>
> One half of solution is found - i disabled canvas property
> "bounds-from-origin". But there is still some asymmetry: when object
> crosses right or bottom edge, canvas growes, but without scrolling.
> If moved to left or top, canvas growes with scrolling. Also canvas
> always tries to align viewport so, that it always contacts with
> uppermost and leftmost objects (hehe, very interesting, what it will do
> when there are no objects... :S)))).
>
> There could be more properties (all behavior should be same for all
> directions/sides).
> - "bounds-shrink-force": If FALSE - shrink only of removed area is not
> in viewport.
> - "scroll-to-expanded-bounds": Completion for previous option; if TRUE,
>  scroll to keep moved object visible (and so - expanded bound).
>
> I'm not sure exactly about names however.

The "automatic-bounds" property was only really intended to be used
for fairly static canvases.
It doesn't really work well when dragging items around.

Damon