On 02/25/2016 03:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
On 02/25/2016 12:44 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
On 02/25/2016 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Jim Byrnes wrote:
> At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code.
> I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it's size.
> Then I dropped 2 radio buttons inside the boundaries of the of the
> label. I was renaming them and changing the label text when the
> problem occurred.
I also can't replicate your problem, but I'm curious about what you were
trying to accomplish here... dropping radio buttons "inside the
boundaries of the label" will place them in front of the label (I'm not
going to get into the religious war of whether they're "above" or
"under" the label in the message path), but they're otherwise not
connected with the label.
When I start to teach myself a new language I usually read the docs, do
some tutorials and for practice recreate a program I have written in
other languages. In this case a simple little program to store some info
in a sqlite db.
The other environments I have used had a control that was essentially a
box with a border around it. At the left end of the top border you could
embed a label in the border itself. You could then drop other controls
inside the box. It just called attention to certain controls.
I didn't see anything like that in Livecode and was experimenting to see
if I could create the effect.
I do find it buggy that if I follow your procedure and then click on the
label text to select the large-border label, I am then unable to select
the buttons, even though they are in front of the label, without first
clicking somewhere else to deselect the label field. I'll file a bug on
that one.
As far as the cursor changing to a hand, it sounds like you've entered
Browse mode instead of Edit mode. I don't use the tool palette myself,
but I think there may be a control-key sequence that toggles between the
modes, and you may have accidentally triggered that. In PowerTools the
sequence is control-tab, so you might give that a try.
Here ctrl-tab toggles the tool palette. I tried a number of modifier
keys + another key combinations with no effect. To me it looks like I
am stuck in run mode. I can drag a control off of the palette and drop
it on the stack, but it just disappears.
Regards, Jim
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