Anyone notice that potals size differently in 9 than 8.5? In 8.5, a portal in layout mode can only be vertically resized by an increment equal to the number of portal rows (like repeating fields). In 9, you can resize a portal by a single pixel.

Perhaps as a result of the Auto-Resize feature?

"In 9, you can resize a portal by a single pixel."

No, even in 9.0 the vertical resize is by whole rows in layout mode. (The port row height is pixel-by-pixel.)

In browse mode, if the the auto-resize feature is enabled for the portal, the whole portal will expand vertically by pixels to reveal more portal rows.

Not sure if we're talking about the same thing.

In 8, in layout mode, I could change the vertical dimensions of a portal by selecting a portal and changing vertical the value in the object info box. That value would reset itself to the nearest (? maybe next lowest) multiple of the portal rows, ensuring all portal rows have an integer value.

In 9, I can set that value to anything I want and it sticks, making a portal row a "non integer" number of pixels.

I've attached a sample file. In 9A, in Browse mode, the 5 row portal on the left is clearly a couple pixels shorter than on the right. In 8.5A, they look the same (though in Layout mode, the pixel height shows what it shows in 9).

portal_test.fp7.zip

I have *never* though of using the object info box to change a portal size!

And yes, it does resize it pixel-by-pixel, though I'm really not sure what it's doing, it's pretty weird. It seems to size each row individually, working it way from the top row. (Not sure I want to do this with a file that's being use in FMP 8.5 or earlier.)

Interesting discovery David.

Not to work out what it means...

I only noticed it because of the change. I've a trackpad laptop, sometimes without a mouse, and resizing by dragging gets annoying. So when designing layouts I use Object Info a lot.

No idea what it means either, or if it really makes a difference, but there it is.