Hi Thorsten, do you have a little sample project showing the problem(s)? I was playing with container controls on Windows a bit (using 2006r3) and encountered none of your issues. Even after save/reopen everthing is fine...
best regards Thomas -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:04:02 +0200 Von: Thorsten Hohage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [email protected] Betreff: ContainerControls one year later > Hi, > > after one of the most exciting new things being the container > controls in the last year and being disappointed only by doing some > very simplistic tests, I gave me and RS a "grace" period - now I'm in > need of doing REALwork. > > After getting more issues everyday I got up early this morning and > start crawling my mailing archieve, add me to several bugs, just to > recognized time obviously doesn't change much in this case. > > Just as an example I pick the following mail, but there are so much > other, that I could pick, too. > > > > Message: 3 > > Subject: Re: ContainerControl.enabled does not exist? > > From: Terry Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:33:40 -0700 > > > > > > Only a few personal observations and opinions. > > > > 1. The ContainerControl (ne:Embedded Window) is a "Work In Progress" > > Yes, and it's still and while there was (RBSQLServer, ....) and are > (UB, Cocoa, ...) sooooooooo many more important things to do I'm > afraid this state will not change for a long time > > > > 3. You won't get much out of RS until they solve more of the bugs. > > There are so much discussions and so less real answers and even more > less things that had been corrected. > > > > 4. What appears possible sometimes is impossible later (i.e. after a > > save). > > The first hours I thought it was me making mistakes, or the Intel in > my MacBook, or ... > > What is the really most annoying thing, you fix everything, you save > your project, you open your project again, restart it in debugger and > several other places are broken, you fix everything, you save your > project, you open your project again, restart it in debugger and > several other places are broken, you fix everything, you save your > project, you open your project again, restart it in debugger and > several other places are broken, ... > > > > 5. It can't make up it's mind whether it's a window or a control. > > (re: Enabled Quasi-Property) > > The bad thing about you can't get it by logic, so I added a new > method in my SuperWindow-class "RegisterContainer" and register them > by code in the start up of the window to get a list of all used > containers, for all other custom-"controls" this is of course not > necessary. > > And IMHO THIS is the source of a real annoying other problem, when > layering some canvases and ContainerControls, then the left- and top- > properties becomes completely useless, or does someone things that > "left:-260" is meanfull for a container-control being fully visible? > > And loosing some of the parents in every second restart is not really > helpful. > > > > I'm sure time will sort it out eventually. > > I'm not in the business for nearly 20 years and I'm planning to work > for 30 more years, so yes I think I will the issues fixed. > > > > In the meantime, I have been successful in creating a > > ContainerControl on a TabPanel (in code) that appears to work. More > > tests are still required. > > In the meantime I created a xhtml-directed "presentation"-canvas > where a lot of the dynamic things happen and for editing a separated > window is open, works fast and pretty nice, so far no issues. > > > > ciao > > Thorsten Hohage > -- > that-Office.de Softwaredesign - Hamburg,Germany > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
