Perhaps you could describe, both in general and in detail, what you
are trying to accomplish. You have many misconceptions of what you
can or cannot do in REALbasic.
You present problems without a valid code base to work on. This make
it difficult for anyone to answer your questions accurately.
We can fix up faulty code, provide direction as to other options or
suggest other courses of action. What we cannot do is to decipher
snippets of code that really do not make sense without a concept of
what you are trying to accomplish.
Your answers below really don't help much.
I really don't mean to sound negative but you haven't provided much
to work with so far. Believe it or not, there really are solutions to
your current problem and all of us would like to help if we could
understand a few more things. :)
Terry
PS. You can only close existing controls and you cannot create one
from a property of another control.
On Aug 29, 2006, at 7:16 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
Hi Jack,
On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:43 AM, CV wrote:
On Aug 29, 2006, at 2:36 AM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
Greetings All,
Managed to get the static text (ST) addressing sorted out. A faux
pas on my part.
Got an interesting thing going on now with the embedding.
As mentioned earlier, the ST is embedded in a rectangle control
(RC), which is a modified version of a regular rectangle control,
i.e., a sub-class of Rectangle Control.
Maybe I'm going about the embedding wrong. I've set the ST up as
a property of the RC.
I've got three such RCs appearing in a window.
During the OPEN process each RC has the ST associated with it is
declared and properties thereof set, including the text that is
to be displayed.
However, when I look at the window, only the first of the three
RCs is showing an ST and THAT ST has the text of the last of the
three RCs in it.
So, if I'm fouled up in my understanding of how to embed an ST
object in another control object, e.g., an RC, where can I find
information on how to do that properly?
The term 'embedding' is not appropriate. Based on your posts, you
either want the rectangle to be the parent of the statictext or
you want the rectangle subclass to have a statictext control in
the sense of composition or perhaps both.
Thanks for correcting my improper terminology.
If you want a rectangle control to be the parent of a statictext
control: In this relationship, both controls belong to the window.
To achieve the parent-child relationship, drag your rectangle
control onto the window, then drag the static text control within
the rectangle control. When properly done, when you select the
statictext the border of the rectangle will highlight in red. This
means that the rectangle is the container, ie., the parent of the
statictext. This relationship sets certain links between the
controls as described in the User's Guide relating to disabling
and movement.
I was trying it this way, but had problems with the text being
truncated into non-existence when the rectangle control (RC) was
sized down-ward.
On the other hand, the approach that you describe suggests
something else. You may want a composition structure in which the
rectangle subclass "has a" statictext control as a property. In
this case, give your rectangle subclass a property, say
MyStaticText as statictext. You can now write code in the subclass
which references MyStaticText. To make it work, drag your subclass
onto a window and drag a StaticText1 onto the window. In the open
event of the rectangle control put:
If StaticText1 <> nil then
MyStaticText = self.StaticText1
End
I'm trying it this way, in the hope that I can better control the
StaticText (ST) to prevent it disappearing.
I figured out why the only ST showing up placed the verbiage of the
last RC in the first RC. An arbitrary ST I had put into the box to
gauge how large it was going to be was still in the system. I
eliminated it and now NO ST is showing up in any RC upon opening.
I take it, from your explanation, that I STILL need to put an ST
object into each of the RCs in the window's layout view of the RB
IDE? I thought I could create such things on the fly.
Here's the code I was using.....
// create new static text for label in rectangle
stID = new StaticText // where stID is a StaticText property of
the RC sub-class titled ResizeRelocRect
// set properties
stID.Text = labelText // where labelText is arbitrarily set for
each of the three RCs
stID.Height = 20
stID.Width = 220
stID.TextAlign = 1 // center alignment
Later after a calculation to determine proper placement of the ST
in the RC for centering, there is....
stID.Top = topY
stID.Left = leftX
stID.Enabled = true
stID.Visible = true
But nothing is showing up.
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