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Re: Does the IDE support having controls on >1 layers

• Posted by Andrew Katz <Akatz712 at gmail.com> Mar 19, 2007
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Dan Moyer wrote:
> 
> Andrew Katz wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > The only thing I would like is that controls placed on a tab cannot be
> > captured
> > by controls in another tab. This needs to be done in grand parenting. For
> > example
> > if control A's parent is Group 100 and Group 100's parent is tab2. Control A
> > should not be be captured by control x whose parent is Group 200 and
> > group 200's parent is tab1. Or by group 200. The way I design tabs has
> > controls
> > overlapping. And the more tabs the more confusion the way the IDE is now.
> > 
> > Andy Katz
> 
> Andy,
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the problem you're having.  I use layering a lot,
> but not with a lot of tabs, other than once in "RunDemos" for Win32Lib, but
> that doesn't have a lot of controls IN the tabs.
> 
> When I do have difficulty getting a control to be exactly where I want it,
> for instance, if there may be another control in a location SOME times,
> but I want ANOTHER control to be in that location another time,
> I just put the second control wherever I can, & then tell it to be moved
> to the actual intended location when the window opens and made invisible;
> then when it should be useable, I make the original control invisible &
> the second one visible.
> 
> That's really all layers is doing anyway, doing a "gross" vis/invis thing,
> so any additional vis/invis is just a tweak.
> 
> Will something like that help?
> 
> Dan Moyer

Dan:

I originally confused layers and tabs. And so the title of this thread in
the forum is misleading, but I keep it the same to keep the thread.

I know that Judith put in the layers for a specific case where a person
wanted to have different radio buttons in the same group show up
depending on some other control. What I am trying to do is classic tabs.
However, I have overlapping groups according to the IDE. I would like the
IDE to think in terms of true layers for the tabs, so I do not even see
a possible parenting to controls in another tab. Of course, this can be
an option in the IDE, so it will work as it works now if people want.

Andy Katz