AFAIK all versions draw in same order - and its order in which controls are stored in form structure. soif you have 2 controls on same place later definition will be drawn later so it will overlap previous one
but its not enough. i played with it some time ago and i had problems with fields, they didn't looked nice because they erased screen, so there was bitmap with ugly white rectangles where field was.... with labels, lists, buttons and others there wasn't any problem. unfortunately i needed editable fields too so i gave up whole idea Douglas Handy wrote: > Jay Ts, > >> I am using the PODS Resource Editor, and there doesn't >> seem to be any way using it to specify layering of >> the visual appearance (order of drawing) of things >> in the form when it first appears (as a result of >> a FrmDrawForm() call). And I could find nothing having >> to do with that in the .xrd file, either. > > I think you'll find that different Palm OS versions layer overlapping form > objects differently. That is, pre-OS5 devices will use a different order than > OS5 devices. So to my knowledge, to get the effect you want you can't just > let > FrmDrawForm do the drawing for you. > > Doug > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
