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