That is a shortfall, but WPF does a lot of things that we would LOVE to have in VFP (e.g. CSS llke Styles, much better responsiveness than our anchors, etc.)
Eric On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 12:26 PM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Wow...I see you created that in 2019. I can't believe what I saw...I'd > have expected it to work much better than that. VFP has been > off-support officially for 4+ years by that time yet the "old girl" > still looks better for designers given this obvious shortfall. > > > On 8/20/2021 8:44 AM, Matt Slay wrote: > > Here’s a YouTube video I made about WinForms UserControl and how it does > not work like our beloved FoxPro does. > > > > https://youtu.be/gWONvlLSq3U > > > > > > > > Matt Slay > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Aug 20, 2021, at 6:01 AM, Alan Bourke <alanpbou...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, at 5:34 PM, Graham Brown wrote: > >> > >>> What am I missing? > >> You're not missing anything. Visual inheritance in the Windows Forms > designer does not work like VFP, Delphi or whatever. It didn't in 2002, > and on inspection still doesn't now. > >> > >> This is how you do it with a UserControl. > >> > >> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/controls/creating-a-wf-control-design-time-features?view=netframeworkdesktop-4.8 > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Alan Bourke > >> alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CAAwxvUn-5tOy=Hy7uLx=Nxzen8V2E=8epb1h1sdij8sets2...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
