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Re: PagePanel Frustrations

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Subject: Re: PagePanel Frustrations
From: Daniel Stenning <d0stenning at msn dot com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:12:23 +0100
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Thread-topic: PagePanel Frustrations
Now that I'm back on GUI stuff and a window that uses pagepanels, tabs and
several containercontrols I'm feeling this "pain" too.  Its high time RS
sorted this stuff out. I'll sign on.


On 29/9/07 00:10, "Dr Gerard Hammond" <realbasic at macsos dot com dot au> 
wrote:

> At 3:51 PM -0700 28/9/07, Dave Wooldridge wrote:
>> It has been mentioned by other people over the years on this list, but it
>> finally bit me -- I have a project with several controls on various
>> PagePanel pages, which always displayed fine, but upon compiling it in
>> RB2007r4 today, the controls are now nested on the wrong PagePanel pages,
>> all jumbled up now in both the IDE project and my compiled app.
>> 
>> I know this has been an ongoing issue that frequently happens with controls
>> on PagePanels, especially ones that share the same coordinates but on
>> different PagePanel pages.
>> 
>> Has anyone found a way to resolve this?  I hear about lots of problems with
>> Containers, and because of it I rarely use them.  But I was wondering if
>> encapsulating all of the controls of each PagePanel page into its own
>> Container, and then placing a single Container per PagePanel page would
>> prevent my controls from displaying jumbled on the wrong PagePanel pages.
>> 
>> Anyone have any experience working around this PagePanel issue by using
>> Containers?  Or some other solution?
>> 
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Yes, this 'orrible, grubby little bug gets me all the time.
> 
> I have asked for it to be put on my QuickFix list.
> 
> http://support.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=kvopbelx
> 
> I attached a private project showing the bug
> 
> 1) Backup the project
> 2) I move the pagepanel to index - 0 then make sure that a control
> (Not on the page panel) is selected
> 3) Pray to the great God in the Sky (..are you up there SuperMan?)
> 4) resize the window
> 5) build the app and see what broke.
> 
> 
> More often than not I just swear to never resize the window and
> revert to the project saved in (1)

Cheers,
Dan




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