fields disappearing when grabing them

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Wed May 9 15:23:14 EDT 2007


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)
than the stack/card?

> Best regards from Grenoble
> André

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de




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