Keith, thanks for that suggestion. I'll see if that would work for me.
Although, my window does not resize the same way yours does, so I could only
employ swapping Containers into position via code if it moves quick enough
that the user would not see the switch or any redraw flicker. I'll test it
to see how it performs. Thanks!
--Dave
on 9/29/07 12:17 PM, Keth DeLog wrote:
> On 9/28/07 11:32 PM, "Dave Wooldridge" <electric dot butterfly at mac dot
> com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Hey Dave,
> Better yet, ditch the pagepanel all together. You'll never look back!
>
> Create a single containercontrol property in the window. My master window is
> sized to the toolbar. As the user selects a toolbar button, the appropriate
> containercontrol is initialized in the window property and the window
> resizes itself to embed the control.
>
> It's worked flawlessly for me. Besides exorcising the demons of paegpanels
> all together, as an added benefit each container control encapsulates the
> functionality of a former panel. I've found the refactored code in 18
> container controls immeasurably easier to maintain than the former single 18
> pagepanel window with hundreds of methods and controls.
>
> Keith DeLong
>
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