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RE: Couple questions/"features" about Judith's IDE

• Posted by Judith <camping at txcyber.com> Jan 04, 2002
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SR.Williamson wrote:
> I did move them onto the control by mouse, but then to get the spacing 
> exactly right, I tried to edit the location via property sheet, and 
> that's when the fun began. I can live with having to do it with keyboard 
> 
> arrows if I can get the same fine control as typing it into the property 
> 
> sheet.

The number of pixels the control will move when using the arrow keys is 
the same size as the Design overlay grid spacing - the default is 4. You 
can change the size in configuration/grid.


> > I'm not sure how the next control got into Properties. Could you perhaps 
> > 
> > have clicked in Design?
> 
> Nope, I was typing away in the property sheet. I think what happened, 
> now that you explained that property sheet responds instantaneously, is 
> that the property sheet, and location in particular had focus. I started 
> 
> typing in the new location. It took the first number, decided I was 
> done, and went to the next control since the property sheet still had 
> focus. 

IDE won't change controls without some action on you part. At least I've 
not progammed it to do that

> I was using the mouse to move the group.

Ok I'll look into the parenting routines again.


> > What attributes would you be wanting to change with multiple > > select?
> 
> It would be nice to be able to set them all the same size, and the same 
> caption, color, parent, etc. but what I'm really looking for is the 
> ability to move a group without using a group control. The group control 
> 
> is an okay workaround, I just don't like the border and caption. 
> Sometimes I would like it to be blank. Is there a way to turn off the 
> border and caption?

You can turn off caption by deleting it in Properties but I think it 
will still show a small gap in the border. You might try to turn off the 
border using style overrides. Look into Win32lib and see what style 
Group has and then enter the style in Properties without the border.

> 
> One other thing now that I'm thinking about it. I set the locations for 
> the refman and win32lib html files, but didn't see how you could bring 
> them up from the program.

In Code Editor under HELP menu.

Judith