I had the same problem and spent 5 days on it. :-))
So, just uncheck the "Usable" checkbox for the gadget
in the Constructor and everything will work fine.
Regards
Bozidar
> Greetings,
>
> We have a gadget that we are using as a tab control. The gadget is being
> used in the 3.0 fashion. It basically works by hiding & showing controls
> (FrmHideObject and FrmShowObject) on pen down events. The gadget overlaps
> all the controls and some of the controls (check boxes and repeating
> buttons) that lie within the gadget area overlap each other. In
> Constructor,
> when we lay out the controls, they are not set to be usable (unlike the
> gadget).
>
> This seems to work fine on 3.0, 3.1 etc but under 3.5 (both debug and
> release ROMs), even though the controls are visible correctly
> (and hence are
> usable, I believe), they don't respond to any mouse down events (no
> CtlSelect or CrlRepeat events come through). Just to make sure, I
> even tried
> calling CtlSetUsable but still no luck. Changing the order of the controls
> and gadget in the form made no difference either.
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> If I delete the gadget after drawing the tabs initially (FrmRemoveObject),
> everything is fine and the controls respond like they should! Another
> interesting thing I noticed while playing with this stuff was
> that if there
> no overlapping controls inside the gadget area, everything
> behaves normally.
> However, this is not an acceptable workaround for us. Luckily, calling
> FrmRemoveObject on the gadget is because the gadget is really only being
> used to figure out the rectangle for drawing the tabs.
>
> FrmRemoveObject obviously fixes up the form in some way. I did
> not look very
> hard, but it does not appear there is any other function in
> Form.c that does
> similar things. I would like to know what I am doing wrong. Can
> any Palm Dev
> Support people please respond, thanks.
>
> - Sudeep
>
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