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Re: PagePanel Frustrations

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Subject: Re: PagePanel Frustrations
From: Sven E Olsson <lists at seedit dot info>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:25:02 +0200
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Sven E


On 2007-09-29, at 11:38, Dr Gerard Hammond wrote:

> 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....
>
>
> http://support.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php? 
> reportid=kvopbelx
>
>
>
>
> 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
>>
>
> -- 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dr Gerard Hammond
> MacSOS Solutions
> _______________________________________________

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