Mike and Larry, Is there anyway to copy a db edit into a enhanced 4 tab control box? Boyd
---- Mike Byerley <[email protected]> wrote: > And if all your objects still are not in view, then open the Object List and > select the objects there, Press F11 and set their TOP and LEFT settings on > the property sheet. > > Also, If you are copying TEXT or other objects from an extraneous source, > you want to be sure to click on the target tabsheet before pasting, > otherwise the default object selected when you open the form for editing is > the form itself, and the pasted objects will be contained there. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 10:02 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Enhanced tab Control > > > What happens when you copy from one container and paste into another is that > the top and left position of the thing that you copy has the same offset as > in the original container. If you copying from something big and pasting > into something small, it is likely that thing you pasted is too far down > and/or to the right to be visible. > > You can: > > 1. Move the thing(s) your copying to the upper left of the original > container before hitting CTRL-C. > > or > > 2. Immediately after you hit CTRL-V to paste and before you do anything > else, hit CTRL-UP and CTRL-LEFT to move the still-selected objects. Even > moving one unit will force the object to move into the visible area of the > screen. > > or > > 3. Make the target container large enough to see the pasted components, move > them, then resize (doesn't work if the pasted components are anchored bottom > right since they'll follow the resized lower right corner). > > -- > Larry > > > > ________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 9:16 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Enhanced tab Control > > I am trying to copy and paste text on a form with 4 tabs. I pasted text will > not appear on the tabs. > I only can see text when I add new text boxes to the tabs. I need some help. > >

