Place text absolutely on dialogue/panel

Question

Since there is no possibility to make the label of a Radiobutton use multiple lines, I try to place the second line as Statictext below the group of radio buttons.
With this snippet
 
  	wSaveOld.g1.rb = wSaveOld.g1.add('group',undefined);
      wSaveOld.g1.rb.height = 15;
    	wSaveOld.g1.rb.rb8  = wSaveOld.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-08");
...
    	wSaveOld.g1.rb.rb17 = wSaveOld.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-17");
     wSaveOld.rbtxt = wSaveOld.add('statictext',undefined,"[2015]         [2017]        [2019]         [2020]        [2022]");
     wSaveOld.rbtxt.indent = 400;
 
I get this presentation:

However, I want to have the additional text closer to the radio buttons like this:

Hence in the snippet I replaced the last line by
 
wSaveOld.rbtxt.bounds = {x:400, y:30, width:270, height:15};
 
However, this has no effect at all! It turns out that only the width parameter is handled (smaller values truncate the string).
► Any ideas how to get the desired presentation?

K.Daube · Accepted Answer

Based on the discussion in the InDesign forum, I have now found a solution:

This is, what I want to see: the second part of the lable of the radio buttons is close enough to build a unit.

PositionAbsolute = function (oObject, asProps, asMethods) { // ====================
  wPal = new Window('dialog', "Simulate multiline label by tinkering with margins, spacing and indent", undefined);
  wPal.size = [450, 100];
  wPal.spacing = 0;
  wPal.margins = 0;
  wPal.alignChildren = "left";
    wPal.st0 = wPal.add("statictext", undefined, "");                   // space
    
	wPal.g1 = wPal.add('group',undefined, "");
    wPal.g1.alignChildren = ["left","center"];
    wPal.g1.spacing = 5;
    wPal.g1.margins = 0;
    wPal.g1.indent = 5;
  	wPal.g1.st1 = wPal.g1.add('statictext',undefined,"FM Zielversion");
  	wPal.g1.rb = wPal.g1.add('group',undefined);
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb8  = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-08");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb9  = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-09");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb13 = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-13");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb14 = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-14");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb15 = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-15");
     wPal.rbtxt = wPal.add('statictext',undefined,"[2015]         [2017]          [2019]");
     wPal.rbtxt.indent = 230;
	wPal.st1 = wPal.add("statictext", undefined, "");                   // space
	wPal.st2 = wPal.add("statictext", undefined, "Continued presentation ...", {multiline:true});    
	wPal.st2.preferredSize.width = 450;    

  wPal.show();
} // --- end PositionAbsolute ---------------------------------------------------------------------

PositionAbsolute ();

K.Daube · Answer

I have now created a test case to present the full code - I can not find a method to place the additional text correctly. For reference a pixel-ruler is overlayed in the screen shot:

// E:\_DDDprojects\FM-JsxLib\FMjsxLib\Functions\Demos\PositionAbsolute.jsx ====== UTF-8 
// Test/Demo for aboslut position of text within dialogue/panel

PositionAbsolute = function (oObject, asProps, asMethods) { // ======================
  wPal = new Window('dialog', "Test absolute positioning", undefined);
  wPal.size = [450, 100];
  wPal.alignChildren = "left";
	wPal.g1 = wPal.add('group',undefined, "",{borderStyle:"black"});
	wPal.g1.margins = 0;
  	wPal.g1.st1 = wPal.g1.add('statictext',undefined,"FM Zielversion");
  	wPal.g1.rb = wPal.g1.add('group',undefined);
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb8  = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-08");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb9  = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-09");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb13 = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-13");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb14 = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-14");
    	wPal.g1.rb.rb15 = wPal.g1.rb.add('radiobutton',undefined,"FM-15");
     wPal.rbtxt = wPal.add('statictext',undefined,"[2015]         [2017]         [2019]");
//   wPal.rbtxt.location = {x:230, y:30           // does nothing
//   wPal.rbtxt.location = [230, 30];             // does nothing
//   wPal.rbtxt.bounds = {x:230, y:30, width:140, height:15}; // only width is handled
     wPal.rbtxt.indent = 230;                     // ok, but not sufficient

  wPal.show();
} // --- end PositionAbsolute --------------------------------------------------

PositionAbsolute ();

Since "A RadioButton object has no creation properties", labels can not be multiline. Hence I try to place the "second line" close below - but no method works!

Have entered this as bug FRMAKER-12959

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