1. RE: IDE Grouping Issues
- Posted by Judith <camping at txcyber.com> Aug 08, 2001
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cklester at yahoo.com wrote: > I created a few set of controls and then decided to place them in a > group. I > created the group control then positioned each child control into the > group. > The IDE is smart enough to make the group control the parent control of > each > control place in the group control. However, the IDE ain't smart enough > to > know that the parent group needs to be CREATED in the code before the > child > controls! Ouch! I used to have this correct. I'll go back through my notes and see what is going on. >When I run the form, it crashes saying Group28 not defined... So, > the IDE needs to know to create parents before children. Yes, it *used* to keep that straight by moving the children behind the group in the IDE sequence. I guess with some 'enhancement' in 0.10.5 I goofed. In the meantime, what you can do is go to Menu Run/Tab Order Controls and place the group behind its children. > > Also, I'd like to be able to use <TAB> in the Form Design window to > check > the tab order. I mean, when I hit <TAB> with a control selected in the > Form > Design window, it goes to the next control in the sequence. Really! When I use <Tab> nothing happens. I don't have anything in Design about tabbing. But if you mean in your EXW program, you have to use MENU Run/Tab Order Controls to change the tabbing from the order created/moved in IDE. What this routine does is change the order the controls are created in the EXW. IDE is constantly shuffling the controls around as they are added/moved/moved into and out of containers e.g. group; this is an area I want to improve upon, eventually. > > Finally, if I've got a group of controls in a group control, when I > <TAB> it > only selects subsequent items in that group. IOW, it never selects > controls > OUTSIDE of that group control. This is not expected behavior in the > Windows > environment that I'm aware of... Now it really sounds like you mean in your EXW program. Here again I create the controls in the order IDE has them unless over-ridden with the Menu Run/Tab Order Controls. Let me know, Judith > > Thanks! :) > <\< > > >
2. RE: IDE Grouping Issues
- Posted by Judith <camping at txcyber.com> Aug 08, 2001
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cklester at yahoo.com wrote: > Judith, > > > > Also, I'd like to be able to use <TAB> in the Form Design window to > > > check the tab order. I mean, when I hit <TAB> with a control selected in > the > > > Form Design window, it goes to the next control in the sequence. > > > > Really! When I use <Tab> nothing happens. > > My statement was quite ambiguous... Here it is revised and > understandable: > > I'd like to be able to use <TAB> in the Form Design window to jump from > control to control. Right now it doesn't do that. The problem is that the controls are DRAWN and not real. So there isn't anything to <Tab> to that I know of. > > > > Finally, if I've got a group of controls in a group control, when I > > > <TAB> it only selects subsequent items in that group. IOW, it never > selects > > > controls OUTSIDE of that group control. This is not expected behavior in > the > > > Windows environment that I'm aware of... > > > > Now it really sounds like you mean in your EXW program. > > Yes. This time I mean in my EXW program. > > At the top of my form I have a group control, with four text boxes > within. > When I run the EXW, when I press <TAB>, the only controls ever selected > are > the ones in the group. I have many more outside the group. Is that > clear? Absolutely. But I don't do anything with the controls except create them in order. If you write your own exw without using IDE does it act differently? > > <\< > > >