This may be covered elsewhere but I could not find it quickly with a search.
A form is designed and controls are placed on the form. When the control is clicked to give it the focus, it often moves. What, if anything, can be done to prevent this from happening? The only thing I have found that works is locking and unlocking the controls. There must be a better way. Having the ability to lock an individual control in place would seem to be the way to do it but if this is available, I have not found it.
Richard,
This feature exists (I have only checked in FF 3.62):
Right click the control that you want to lock/unlock --> "Control Properties" --> Go to the property "Locked" --> Set to True to lock (or to false to unlock) this particular control.
And it gets even better.
Select two or more controls (hold CTRL to select) and do the same. You can unlock or lock the group of selected controls.
Kind regards
Thanks for the quick response.
I can see where you can set the "Locked" property of a control to be "True" or "False". I will use this.
It would be nice if this property where set on the "Format" menu when "Lock Controls" is checked but I can also see where this could be a problem since you would then have to selectively relock or reunlock controls after the menu option is selected.
In the FireFly Designer go to Menu <Tools><Environment Options>.
In the Dialog choose <Visual Designer>.
Uncheck <Snap to Grid>.
Besides that once I have set up a form in most cases I lock the controls and move/size them by keyboard for minor changes.
Rolf