Z-order in design mode (I think)

[Marc van Cauwenberghe]

Dear Paul,
One of the most frustrating things for me is the z-order in the design mode of FF3. It really .... me. I know it is a difficult. I will try to give you some reproducable examples so that you can fix them.
This one has to do with the fact that you sometimes see a control selected on the form (by selected I mean that the control has the black squares at the edges of the control) but when you drag it to an other place another control gets moved.
Make a new project
dubble click on the button control
-> a button named command 1 is placed in the upper left corner of the form
save the project
reopen the project
add an other button
-> at this point you will see 'Command2' on top of 'Command1' and by the black squares indicate that it has been selected. This is correct and intuitive I think.
Now if you click on 'Command2' and drag it you will see that you are dragging 'Command1', the underlying control. This is to my mind not correct.

Regards,
Marc

[Cho Sing Kum]

Actaully what happen is that the moment the newly added Command2 is being clicked, the selection jump to Command1. So when you drag, Command1 is being dragged.

Because the two buttons are one on top the other, the jump in selection is not seen/noticed.

You can see this by moving Command1 very slightly down and right before saving the form and project, and only very slightly. You want to two Command buttons to overlap a lot.

When you next open the project and add the Command2, leave it at the default top left position, the command buttons will be slightly offset. Click on Command2 and you will see the selection handles jump to Command1.

[Marc van Cauwenberghe]

Ah, I see what you mean. But FF3 should not be doing this I think.

Marc