[Gambas-user] Group property of controls in IDE

[Willy Raets]

On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 16:51 +0100, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Willy Raets wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there any documentation on how to use the group property for controls
> > in IDE?
> > 
> > How do I use this feature?
> > Is it possible to make things happen to all controls part to the same
> > group at once? That is what I hope it does, but I can't find anything in
> > the documentation.
> > 
> > Willy
> 
> If the documentation fails, look in the mailing list archive. I remember
> several questions about Group.
> 
> Anyway, you must know that this cannot be documented in any component
> because it is a virtual property existing only in the IDE.
> 
> What does it do? It makes all the controls in the same group raise events
> with the same name, i.e. a Group of buttons with the group name "mybuttons"
> will all raise their Click() event, e.g., as mybuttons_Click().
> 
> Where did I read this? In the IDE, you can click on the Group property field
> in the properties window. In the default configuration, you should see a
> help box explaining all this just below that properties grid.

Oops, forgot the IDE help :-)
Anyway thanks for the help.
It's cleared up some confusion in my mind about Group property :)
> 
> Regards,
> Tobi

Willy