Groupbox (VFB on PPC) still not working correctly

[zehlein]

VFB on PocketPC: put groupbox on form, groupbox is selected, new-radiobutton, radiobutton is placed on the form, not in the groupbox (no way to get it in)
btw, running the VFB the first time (ver 1.02) on PPC the compiling and linking worked fine but then I got an runtime exception as the environment tried to run VFB, after soft reset the VFB seems to work - strange...

[bmanske]

I tried as you said and it worked fine for me. I'm using 1.03, but there were no changes that should have effected this.

Can you try it with 1.03 and if it doesn't work, then post the FRM file you created here and I'll take a look at it.

[kornalius]

I think he wants to say that when he puts a control in the groupbox, the control doesn't move with the groupbox when the groupbox is moved around. I saw this the other day.

On the PIDE it works differently. The controls inside a groupbox moves with it.

[bmanske]

I'd have to admit that I haven't even tried this. After years of using Microsoft development tools, the thought never crossed my mind. I just checked VS 2005 and it still doesn't do this.

Zehlein, if this isn't your issue, please let us know.

Does Borland's Delphi or some other IDEs do this or is PPL setting a new standard?

It honestly doesn't sound too dificult. Since this is the way PIDE works, I'll try to make it work for the VFB on the PPC.

[kornalius]

Yep, Delphi does it AFAIK. Never really bothered to mess around with eVc's (3 and 4) form editor because it wasn't really useful.

[zehlein]

sorry, late reply: yes Delphi does it (my "standard" IDE) and I was not aware that it might be different on other platforms. The groupbox acts as a container for all components it holds and if moved take takes the compononents with it.

[kornalius]

Don't worry zehlein, we will look into it and fix it on the VFB PPC.

[PointOfLight]

I'm assuming that we're talking about PPC development only, and this is what I see so far (and by "supports it" I mean has a frame or groupbox that acts as a container):

eVB 3.0 - supports it
eVC++ 4.0 - doesn't support it
C#.NET 2003 - supports it (called a panel)
VB.NET 2003 - supports it
NSBasic/CE - supports it
Basic4ppc - supports it

This does seem to be an almost unanimous feature of PPC development. Of course, most of these environments (NSBasic/CE and Basic4ppc aside) don't even have PPC IDE's, so it would be interesting to see how the PPC equivalents handle it.

[zehlein]

another little thing to mend with the groupbox: working with VFB on PC: if you drag the groupbox around by using the mouse it works fine (as a container takes its components with it) but if you move it by cursor keys it does not.

[kornalius]

Thanx will be fixed in 1.04.