Re: Reordering components in HPanel fails

[Stéphane Aulery <lkppo@xxxxxxx>]

Le 16/07/2024 à 13:55, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 12:51, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

>     On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 12:20, Stéphane Aulery <lkppo@xxxxxxx
>     <mailto:lkppo@xxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>         My problem is that if I arrange the fields with the graphical
>         editor or
>         try to order them with the container tree viewer, I never get the
>         controls in the order I want. If I reorder the fields in the
>         container
>         tree viewer and then save, the order is lost.
>
>         I don't understand what order it follows unless it's the initial
>         insertion order of the components, which is no use to me since
>         you can't
>         define an Order property.
>
>         What am I doing wrong?
>
>
>     There are tricks i do to sort misordering out.
>
>     For example if the panel that should be on the right is appearing on
>     the left I would do this..
>     Right click the right hand panel and select Cut.
>     Move the left hand panel a pixel or 2
>     Then Paste the right hand panel back in again.
>     Then usually the ordering is correct again.
>
>     Also when you right click an object there is the Arrangement/Bring
>     to Front and Bring to Back options that rearrange the ordering.
>
>     By code you can use hMyPanel.Raise and hMyPanel.Lower commands.
>
>
> A very useful feature here would be if you could select a bunch of 
> contained objects and have an Arrangement option like "Use visible 
> layout" that would set the order to how they currently look in the IDE.

So, the order is the order of insertion ?

It would be better to have an explicit Order property instead of 
fiddling with the IDE.

I expected that at least the container tree editor could change the 
order since it has the buttons to reorder. Is this a bug or missing 
feature?


--
Stéphane Aulery