Re: Does the IDE support having controls on >1 layers
If I am careful to design top down there is not a problem.
First do the tabs, then the groups onto the tabs, then the controls on the
groups.
I think that my problem was a combination of two things.
First, I had a project without tabs and then added tabs to it, and it took me
alot of time to realign the controls and get the parenting correct.
Second, I was using the Project view to select controls. That is what messes
things up. If there is an IDE bug look there. If I go to the IDE and select the
proper tab, and then the group if there is one, and then add or move a control it
is okay most of the time. The safest way is to use the Properties to move and
align and select controls. The Project view is great to edit
the source, since it works better than the Editor for selecting source code. And
the Project view is good as a check to see that the controls are all
being parented correctly.
These are all general comments. The IDE is going to do complicated things which
are difficult to reproduce and describe, when it comes to parenting. And the fact
that my project works, indicates that I have managed to make the IDE work the way
I want it to work. And I am not comparing this IDE with the one for Visual Basic,
since maybe that one has the same issues.
My biggest problem was that when I was moving controls, or selecting them from
the project view to edit and not the other 2 ways, that in Properties the parent
I wanted was not even in the drop down. And that would be very difficult to
reproduce on demand, since these things happen dynamically as one moves controls
around and one forgets how one got to this place. I hope you will get the idea,
and not be offended that I have not provided you with a test case.
Thanks again.
Andy Katz
B.S. Computer Science, 1978
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
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