Re: Reordering components in HPanel fails

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 19/07/2024 à 14:28, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 7/18/24 16:08, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> > Even compressed to less than 500 KB the list rejects it.
>
> The file I downloaded is 580.6 KiB. Is this the same one you tried to send?
>
>
> > Let's move on to the good old method. The object of the crime is here:
> >
> > http://saulery.free.fr/Gambas/
>
> Okay, so...
>
> On first run, the application does show what you have stated, ie. the 
> controls are not laid out as expected.
>
> And, this is why:
> LabelAstroGrepSearch is positioned at Y=0 and has H=42.
> LabelSearchPath is positioned at Y=35; it overlaps LabelAstroGrepSearch.
>
> I moved the three ComboBoxes with their Labels down by 7 so that 
> LabelSearchPath is positioned at Y=42.
>
> Fixed!
>
> Is this a bug, or is the developer expected to ensure that controls are 
> not overlapped? I don't know.
>
> I also discovered, quite by accident, that setting the Text property of 
> any of the ComboBoxes also mitigated the issue. (Benoît, I've attached a 
> 'diff' file created with 'FMain.form~' as the reference file in case it 
> helps.)
>
>
> Attached:
> First run pic
> Last run pic
> Diff file

No, it's just that automatic arrangement occurs when the form is loaded 
and saved.

I must find why, in some cases, it seems that the automatic arrangement 
does not occur on save.

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.