Mike and Razzak, Thanks for the info. Most of my forms are good, but the ones with these 'extra' controls have been heavily edited or several years old. All our data controls use unique ComponentIDs and the 'good' controls being highlighted make it easy to delete the dups. While I can't say these dups ever caused a problem, our maintenance procedure just added an extra step.
Tom Frederick President/CEO Elm City Center 1314 W Walnut Jacksonville, IL 62650 O-217-245-9504 F-217-245-2350 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 4:12 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Object List Question At 04:57 PM 10/27/2014, MikeB wrote: >I promise you if the Object List says there are two controls, there ARE >two controls. > >They are either behind another control or their Right or Top number is >such that they are out of sight. > >Double click on the control in the Object List to bring up its property >page and check the settings to find the control that is being obscured. That is the result of copying & pasting objects without paying attention <g>. In addition to Mike Byerley's post above ... While reviewing all controls listed under the Object List, clicking on the item will also select the appropriate object (even hidden objects behind the panel, etc). Using the latest updates and builds of R:BASE eXtreme 9.5, you can use the [Del] key to delete the object(s) accordingly. Very Best R:egards, Razzak. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom > > Frederick > > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 4:24 PM > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Object List Question > > > > While cleaning up some forms, I clicked on the Object List and found > > more controls than the form had. I have often reused existing forms. > > A BASIC INFO form may have names, addresses and phone numbers. If I > > needed the phone numbers section somewhere else I simply made a copy > > of BASIC INFO, deleted the name/address controls and adjusted the > > look of the phone numbers. Worked fine. Today the Object List shows > > that the edited phone number screen still has all the name/address > > controls attached to the form even though they do not show on the > > screen. On another form I found identical controls in the Object > > List (two first names, two last names, two cities, etc.) even though > > there is only one of each control on the form. Click on first name > > #1 in the Object List and the control on the form is highlighted. > > Delete it and it disappears form the list and the form. Click on > > first name #2, no highlight and no form change when #2 gets deleted. > > > > What causes this and is there an easy fix without going through each > > form individually? > > > > Tom Frederick --- RBASE-L =======================3D=======================3 D= TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO =======================3D=======================3 D= TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE =======================3D=======================3 D= TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. =======================3D=======================3 D=
