Positioning object in a loclocked group

[J. Landman Gay]

That happened to me once and it turned out that I had a duplicate invisible 
control that was moving instead. If you turn on "show invisibles" you might 
find something. The extra control may not even be in the same group.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On April 15, 2021 10:18:46 AM Klaus major-k via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am sure there is a technical reason for this! 8-)
>
> I have a group set to 600*600 pixel and loclocked.
> Inside of the group there are two invisible objects,
> a button and a graphic.
>
> Now if I:
> ...
> create btn "b1" in grp "THE group"
> ## and
> set the loc of btn "b1" of grp "THE group" to whateverX,wahteverY
> ...
> where whateverX and Y are definitively inside of that group!
>
> Then the button stays however in the topleft corner of the group.
> Even moving the button some pixels to right or down does not work.
> Why, oh, why? :-)
>
> Thanks for any insight!
>
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
> --
> Klaus Major
> https://www.major-k.de
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> klaus at major-k.de
>
>
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