It seems to me that in VFP6 there was a way to add objects to a form by dragging them from the form designer toolbar directly to the object list of the property window. There was also a way to delete objects from the Object List of the Property Window as well as move objects from one parent to another. Can this still be done in VFP8 and if so how. I think it involved holding a key down while dragging with the mouse.
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Manipulating Objects via Object List
- Thread starter Loomis
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I think you're confusing the form designer with the class browser. But I'm not aware of being able to drag objects from a toolbar into the class browser. Also, in the form designer, you can delete controls in a grid by selecting them in the property sheet, then clicking on the grid and pressing Delete.
-BP (Barbara Peisch)
-BP (Barbara Peisch)
Hi Loomis,
1. I dont know to drag and drop from forms toolbar.
May be you are meaning that you 1. Click on a control in the forms tool bar and then click on the forms surface to get that object on to the form. If so, then the same exists in VFP8. You can also experiment with the button lock clicked and then adding mutiple controls of the same control in the toolbar on to the form.
2. If you are meaning to drop classes on to the form..
that can be done by drag and drop.
Open the form in the form designer and then switch to the project manager-class tab... now drag and drop suitable classes of your own or whatever and drop them on to the form.
3. While in the property window,
you can quickly reach the Property/Event you want by typing the lead characters.. just as in incremental search.. by
Holding the Cntl+Alt key + the character you want to jump to.
OR
May be I am not understanding you correctly.
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ramani - (Subramanian.G)
1. I dont know to drag and drop from forms toolbar.
May be you are meaning that you 1. Click on a control in the forms tool bar and then click on the forms surface to get that object on to the form. If so, then the same exists in VFP8. You can also experiment with the button lock clicked and then adding mutiple controls of the same control in the toolbar on to the form.
2. If you are meaning to drop classes on to the form..
that can be done by drag and drop.
Open the form in the form designer and then switch to the project manager-class tab... now drag and drop suitable classes of your own or whatever and drop them on to the form.
3. While in the property window,
you can quickly reach the Property/Event you want by typing the lead characters.. just as in incremental search.. by
Holding the Cntl+Alt key + the character you want to jump to.
OR
May be I am not understanding you correctly.
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ramani - (Subramanian.G)
Mike Lewis
Programmer
Loomis,
It has never been possible to drag from the toolbar (except in customisation mode, but that has got nothing to do with the form designer).
As Ramani said, you can click on the toolbar button, then click again in the form designer to place the control in the form, but you cannot do that in the object list -- and never could.
By the way, VFP 8.0 has a feature called the Toolbox that does provide a drag-and-drop source for controls.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
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It has never been possible to drag from the toolbar (except in customisation mode, but that has got nothing to do with the form designer).
As Ramani said, you can click on the toolbar button, then click again in the form designer to place the control in the form, but you cannot do that in the object list -- and never could.
By the way, VFP 8.0 has a feature called the Toolbox that does provide a drag-and-drop source for controls.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Visual Foxpro web site: My Crystal Reports web site:
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