Re: Does the IDE support having controls on >1 layers
- Posted by Judith Evans <camping at ccewb.net> Mar 19, 2007
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> 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 Oh, so we are not talking about a layering problem after all. Good news! Are all the TabItems on layer 0? are all controls on the tabs also in layer 0? If not they must all be in the same layer. If so, then the control you are moving should only get parent from controls in the currently active TabItem. Before you move the control that isn't getting the correct parent be sure the TabItem dropdown in the ToolBar is the tab you want the moving control to go into. IDE will assign the parent as the inner most control in the current TabItem that the moving control's upper left corner is in. If the current tabItem is not the one you want to move into, either left click in the tab title you want or use the TabItem dropdown to select. Again, as I said before, because some people wanted to parent in non tradition ways, the assigned parent may not be the one you actually want but you can always manually change that. All possible parents show in the dropdown. If this still doesn't seem correct to you, please either send me a project file representing the controls in your tabs and indicate which control you are moving and tell me which control you think should be the parent or a screen shot if that would be easier. judith