Me, too. I will think I've selected an object, but instead I'm dragging the object. I've made a mess of many a report, until I learned to click slowly and firmly and watch for the border icons to change to what they should be. And like everybody else, I was blaming my own mouse.
Bill On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jason Kramer <[email protected]> wrote: > John and Sami, > I have noticed the same things as well, and like Sami thought it might > just be something on my computer. Thanks for bringing it up. > Jason > > Jason Kramer > University Archives and Records Management > 002 Pearson Hall(302) 831 - 3127 (voice)(302) 831 - 6903 (fax) > > > On 7/15/2011 11:33 AM, Sami Aaron wrote: > > John –**** > > ** ** > > I’ve experienced this issue too in the last couple of months but thought it > was just some anomaly in my system; I’ve just entered a bug report on this. > Thanks for posting…**** > > ** ** > > Sami**** > > ** ** > > ____________________________**** > > Sami Aaron**** > > Software Management Specialists**** > > 913-915-1971**** > > [email protected]**** > > *P** **Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail***** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *John Docherty > *Sent:* Friday, July 15, 2011 12:02 AM > *To:* RBASE-L Mailing List > *Subject:* [RBASE-L] - Re: Reports Designer - Selecting & Moving Objects** > ** > > ** ** > > Razzak,**** > > ** ** > > Thanks for your reply. **** > > ** ** > > The ‘issue’ is whether or not you should have to double click or single > click an object in a region before it becomes moveable. I realise that you > can move everything by selecting the region, but I find that when I am > working on objects within a region it is very easy to select the region (or > an object) in ‘move mode’ (that is just my description) and it moves when > you don’t want it to. The ‘problem’ seems to be that when you are working in > a region the single click doesn’t put you in the mode with the blue grips > showing on the object selected – it just goes into the ‘outline highlighted > in solid gray mode’ that allows the object to move with the mouse – more > often than not when you don’t want it to, at least in my case. To get it > into the selected mode, where it doesn’t move without the mouse button > being depressed, you need to double click the object.**** > > ** ** > > In my experience (of moving things that I don’t want to move) it would be > good to be able to change the behaviour so that one click in a region was > the same as one click in a part of the report without a region. (I tried an > object in a panel on a form – one click goes straight to the blue grips > state.)**** > > ** ** > > I hope that explains it a bit better. Maybe it is this way for a reason, > but it is not something I have noticed until recently. **** > > ** ** > > Thank you.**** > > ** ** > > Regards,**** > > **** > > John Docherty**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *A. Razzak Memon > *Sent:* Friday, 15 July 2011 12:53 p.m. > *To:* RBASE-L Mailing List > *Subject:* [RBASE-L] - Re: Reports Designer - Selecting & Moving Objects** > ** > > ** ** > > At 08:24 PM 7/14/2011, John Docherty wrote: > > >For example if I select an object in a region (blue grips appear) > >and then single click on the region where there are no other > >objects, the first object is no longer selected but the region > >is now ‘selected’ (outline ‘highlighted’ but no grips visible) > >and will move as soon as I move the mouse. Similarly if I go > >from a selected region (blue grips) and then click on an object, > >the object has the grey outline and then moves with the mouse. > >(I also note that this doesn’t happen all the time, as at times > >the blue grips appear when the object is clicked, at other times > >it goes straight to the highlighted outline.) > > >I don’t recall this happening until a few months ago, but then > >again maybe my memory is the problem. > > John, > > TTBOMK, nothing has changed in relation to report region or any > object(s) within the region. > > Technically, the report region is like a container/panel in a > form designer. > > If I understand your example correctly .... > > You don't need to select the object(s) within the region as > well as the region to move things around. If you need to move > the object within a region, just select the object itself. If > you need to move the region and any object within the region, > just select the region and everything within the region will > tag along with it, automatically. > > Hope that helps! > > Very Best R:egards, > > Razzak. > **** > >
