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Re: PagePanel Frustrations

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Subject: Re: PagePanel Frustrations
From: Dr Gerard Hammond <realbasic at macsos dot com dot au>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:38:51 +1000
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Well Done!  It seems the collective wisdom, friendliness and 
immediacy of the email NUG rules.
I guess REAL no longer need to fix this bug... ;-)


Nah. In case you are reading this Mars....


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At 11:32 PM -0700 28/9/07, Dave Wooldridge wrote:
>on 9/28/07 4:42 PM, Tim Jones wrote:
>
>>  Dave Wooldridge wrote:
>>>  Anyone have any experience working around this PagePanel issue by using
>>>  Containers?  Or some other solution?
>>
>>  Hi Dave - Use the PasteBoard!
>>  I have an app that has a number of pagepanels nested into tabpanels on a
>>  pagepanel.  To keep this hound at bay, I place the bottom level
>>  pagepanels onto the pasteboard during design phase and then position
>>  them in code during runs and in the built app.  This way, the lowest
>>  level pagepanels act a bit like Container Controls, but code like
>>  pagepanels.
>>  Since I did this back in 5.4, I've not had the problem of the scrambled
>>  controls hit again.
>
>
>Thanks for that suggestion, Tim.  As it turns out, earlier this afternoon, I
>grouped the controls from each PagePanel page into their own Container
>Control, so that each PagePanel page now only has one Container Control
>assigned to it.  This way if the controls ever scramble again, all I have to
>do to fix it is drag each Container Control off the Page Panel (onto the
>Pasteboard) and then drag them back on the PagePanel to auto-reassign the
>correct parent-child relationship.  It will save me a TON of time in the
>future, since I'll no longer have to fix dozens of controls individually,
>but now only manage 3 Container Controls with the 3-page PagePanel.  I
>tested it by resizing the window in the IDE to force the control scramble
>bug to occur, and then easily re-assigned the Container Controls to the
>PagePanel to fix it, and it worked beautifully.   :-)
>
>Regards,
>Dave Wooldridge
>Electric Butterfly
>http://www.ebutterfly.com
>
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Cheers,

Dr Gerard Hammond
MacSOS Solutions
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