Rectangle Tool or Symbol reshape problem

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Dear Inductive Team,

We had a requirement where we need to change the Position, Size of a Rectangle Tool / Symbol (from Symbol Factory) based on User data entry. To start with: We placed one tool / Symbol and one Numeric text Field for new width entry; change width by keeping the tool’s / Symbol’s X, Y positions and height as it has initially. When we used following code, it is taking 0,0 as X,Y positions and complete container height as its height.

[code]# Get required variables.
vShape = event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Rectangle’)
vX = vShape.x
vY = vShape.y
vHeight = vShape.height

Get new width from Numeric Text Field.

vWidth = event.source.parent.getComponent(‘Numeric Text Field’).intValue

Check whether entered width is greater than ‘0’ or not.

if vWidth > 0:
# Reshape component to new Width.
system.gui.reshapeComponent(vShape, vX, vY, vWidth, vHeight)
else:
system.gui.errorBox(‘Width should be greater than 0.’, ‘Invalid width’)[/code]
Another observation is, When we see X, Y values for the tool / Symbol in the Designer it shows one value; In event handler it is showing different value (tested through error box).

Waiting for your valuable suggestions.

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The problem is that the component’s x and y may change in the runtime due to the component’s layout. So there is the x and y that you saved in the designer and a relative x and y that you get in the runtime. The x and y you see on the rectangle is the relative x and y. The system.gui.reshapeComponent expects you to work from the designer’s x and y. It will perform the translation necessary to convert it to the relative x and y due to the layout.

So, you should hard code the x and y initially rather than getting it from the component. You can also not use the system function and just set the components relX, relY, relHeight, relWidth directly.

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Thank you Travis.

We got your point. We will try with different approach for achieving our requirement.