Phil,
Thanks as I got it working, the GroupBoxs are now acting properly and it
looks like a real DB now.
Thanks once again.
Jonathon
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From: "Phil M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Getting Started" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: GroupBox enabling?
On Jan 9, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Jonathon Bevar wrote:
Thanks as now I do understand what is going on, but that leaves me with
yet another question. How do I change their control order number?
The Main Tab Control is CON(Control Order Number) 1
The 1st GroupBox is CON18 in Tab1, but the the rest of the edit fields
are between CON34 - CON136. This one will work fine.
The 2nd GroupBox is CON58 in Tab2, but the the rest of the edit fields
are between CON59 - CON108. This one will NOT work.
The 3rd GroupBox is CON109 in Tab3, but the the rest of the edit fields
are between CON110 - CON120. This one will NOT work..
Ok, with this info, it looks like the CON's are all over the place.
Do I need to change the CON numbers to make all of the GroupBox the
lowest numbers?
I think that it is hidden by default, but there is an option to "Show/
Hide Control Order" in the same toolbar with the "Backward" and "Forward"
buttons. Go to customize if you do not see it. Once you enable the
control order display, you adjust the control order by clicking the
"Backward" and "Forward" buttons. If you want to move a group of
controls, then you can select them all and click one of the buttons.
The general rule about control order is that it goes from Top-Left to
Bottom-Right. The only real reason this is true is because when you Tab
between the controls, the app will follow the order defined by the
control order. Try putting a bunch of Editfields on the Window with
"random" control order and run the project... tabbing between the
controls will be all messed up.
When dealing with TabPanel or PagePanels... you generally want to make
each panel start with the next available index. For example, if you have
5 controls on each panel and 3 panels, the PagePanel would be control 0,
the first control at the top-left of page 0 would be control 1 ending
with control 5, the second panel would start with control 6 and end with
control 10, and the last panel would have control 11 to 15.
These are just general rules that are good to follow. The only "must-
follow" rule is that a parent must have a lower control value than the
children. As you can see in the example above the PagePanel had a
control value of 0; but if one of the other controls was sent to the
back, it would be lower than the PagePanel and would no longer be visible
on any page.
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