fields disappearing when grabing them

[Devin Asay]

On May 9, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Bon soir André,
>
>> Hi,
>> In a stack, I have groups of fields so that when one is visible  
>> the others are invisible.
>> Each field has its "lockText" and "list behavior" properties set  
>> to true.
>> The user can edit the visible field by means of buttons (adding or  
>> deleting a line).
>> So, the number of lines (the lenght of lines too), can increase or  
>> decrease ;
>> When the content is changing, the size of the field is  
>> automatically adapted (using formattedHeight and formattedWidth).
>>
>> Consequently, I would like that the user could change at will the  
>> position of the field in the card.
>>
>> So I am trying  to use "if command key is down then grab me" in  
>> the script of each field.
>>
>> BUT, MY PROBLEM is that, when grabing it, parts of the field   
>> disappear (and possibly the entire field) as if it was sliding  
>> under other (invisible) objects !! that, in fact, do not exist  
>> there (except the invisible other fields of the group)
>>
>> For a while, I supposed that this was due to the other fields of  
>> the group (?), so I set all of them to "transparent" (opaque  
>> property to false). But that does not work.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong ? could it be a problem of "group boundary" ??
>> Is there a solution ?
>>
>> I hope my explanations are not too unclear !
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance for any solution or idea to solve this  
>> problem
>
> Quick guess:
> Are these fields part of a group, that group is "lockloc"ked and  
> the group is smaller (height/width)

I'd bet this is the problem, except the situation is worse than that.  
In my experience, when you're dragging objects in a group, the  
dragged object goes out of sight when you drag outside of the group's  
boundaries, *even if its lockLoc is false*. The only workaround I've  
found is to make the group the size of the card and set its lockLoc  
to true. I don't know if this behavior is a bug or a feature.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University