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Re: PagePanel Frustrations

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Subject: Re: PagePanel Frustrations
From: Dave Wooldridge <electric dot butterfly at mac dot com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:11:30 -0700
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Thanks, Paul, I know of that little trick, but unfortunately, I can't have
varying pixel positions in this particular situation, but using Container
Controls seems to be winning solution for me.  Thanks!

--Dave


on 9/29/07 7:34 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:

> From: Dave Wooldridge <electric dot butterfly at mac dot com>
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave Wooldridge
>> Electric Butterfly
>> http://www.ebutterfly.com
> 
> The problem seems to occur if a control on one page is inside the
> boundary of a control on another page. Then the first control decides
> to move to the page of the second. Usually happens when you resize
> the page/tab panel.
> 
> My solution is to select all (or at least the offending controls) and
> use the arrow keys to move one pixel left and then one pixel right.
> This seems to fix the problem.
> 
> Paul Rodman
> 


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