When creating an xml file (or editing existing one), you have those tags:

pinID="2"  pinTop="3"  pinLeft="1"  pinBottom="3"  pinRight="1"

Can someone explain me exactly what does those numbers ? I tried to edit the faceroom.xml file to create a greater preview (200 pixels wider and higher), but I can't move the two buttons: "Random Face" and "Reset Face".
I edited the top, bottom, right, left and also the rect.top, rect.bottom, rect.right, rect.left values. I could ungroup those two buttons and move them individually, but I would like to keep the "group" assembled.

I guess the problem comes from the PinID, pinTop, ... values. But each time I change one of those values, the buttons simply disappears...

I was able to move one button (but only 20 pixels down) but I strictly don't know how... I made some changes, loaded Poser and nothing was changed. Next day, once I loaded Poser, the button wasn't at the same place.

Attached Link: http://www.poseworks.com/serendipity/index.php?/categories/4-PzrXml

I already read it... but it doesn't really help. Will ask Dan...

Maybe try moving "faceButtonGroup" instead of, or as well as, the individual buttons.

The "faceButtonGroup" is not the good one :-(

But I found the solution... It's not really elegant... but it's working. I will try to look for a better solution and post the "hack"

Pinning 1 & 2 deal with Left and Right
Pinning 3 & 4 with Top and Bottom
Pinning 5 is Center

In the image above (imagine that it's more perfect) there's a simple 4x4 grid.

For Text 1 (Left and Right pin)
if pinLeft="1" and pinRight="1" then the left side is at 0 and the right is at 1 (The left side starts at 0 like the normal coordinate system)
if pinLeft="1" and pinRight="2" then the left side is at 0 and the right is at -3 ( the right side starts at 0 backwards of the norm)
if pinLeft="2" and pinRight="1" then the left side is at -4 and the right is at 1
if pinLeft="2" and pinRight="2" then the left side is at -4 and the right is at -3

Is this making sense?

For Text 1 (Top and Bottom pin)
if pinTop="3" and pinBottom="3" then the Top side is at 0 and the Bottom is at 1 (again the coodinate system is normal, the top is 0)
if pinTop="3" and pinBottom="4" then the Top side is at 0 and the Bottom is at -3 (and again, backwards, the bottom is 0)
if pinTop="4" and pinBottom="3" then the Top side is at -4 and the Bottom is at 1
if pinTop="4" and pinBottom="4" then the Top side is at -4 and the Bottom is at -3

and then there's pin 5... The coordinate system starts in the dead center instead of any edge.

if all pins are set to 5 then (Still talking about text 1) Top = -2, Bottom = -1, Left = -2 Right = -1

Got it?

ok then... I'll make a little grid to show the rest of the text boxes then. On second thought, no I won't... that'd just take up too much space... If anyone doesn't understand, I'll use the others for examples as questions arise.

Oh, yeah, I forgot, you can use other combinations too... for example:
Box 5: pinLeft ="1"  pinRight="2" pinTop ="3" pinBottom ="4"
then:
Left is 1, Right is -1, Top is 1, and Bottom is -1

Hope I could help,

--Naylin

I wanted to add, that if pinned like the last example, the entire grid would be:
Left=0, Right=0, Top=0, Bottom=0

And if all pins are set to 1 then the entire grid is:
Left=0, Right=4, Top=0, Bottom=4

Oh, and the only real reason to use any other pinning other than all 1's is if your dialog is going to be resizeable, that way you can basically define what side things are stuck to when resizing. Of course, using pinning 5 for left and right is handy too to make sure that something is centered if you use the tag: staticWidth="1"

--Naylin

Thanks for the info. I didn't knew for the "pinning 5".