Sami, Jason & Bill,
Thanks for your responses. Glad to hear that it is not just me who has been inadvertently making a bit of a mess of reports. Regards, John Docherty From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Downall Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2011 5:33 a.m. To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Reports Designer - Selecting & Moving Objects 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 <tel:%28302%29%20831%20-%203127> (voice) (302) 831 - 6903 <tel:%28302%29%20831%20-%206903> (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]] 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]] 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.
