[plt-scheme] A Square Canvas

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 13 07:47:04 EDT 2008

Is the goal to have a stretchable canvas, but one that always stays
square? For that you'd need to make your own geometry manager, I'm
afraid. This is the relevant part of the docs:

http://docs.plt-scheme.org/gui/windowing-overview.html#(part._new-containers)

Robby

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Jens Axel Soegaard
<jensaxel at soegaard.net> wrote:
> Robby Findler skrev:
>>
>> I can't quite figure out what sizes you want (is something backwards
>> somewhere in the below, by chance?) but maybe you're looking for the
>> min-width and min-height methods of the canvas? If you set those and
>> then make the canvas not stretchable, it will be exactly that size.
>>
>>
>
> Making it non-stretchable and setting the minimum sizes will make the canvas
> quadratic,
> but how can I be sure it will be as big as possible on both normal and wide
> screens?
>
> /Jens Axel
>
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