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by Carl Ranson >> Fri, 11 Aug 2000 3:12:12 GMT

This is an idea I've posted before...but I've been thinking about it again and wanted to have another go

What if we had a treeview along the left side of the painter that listed the controls in the current form. This would allow you to easily establish the context of the selected control (ie who its parent controls are). It would also allow easy selection of multiple controls that happen to have different parents (say you want to align contols on different sheets of a folder, for instance).

Any/all Selected controls would be shown bold, and selection could also be made in the tree.

eg

MyForm
Frame1
Sheet1
ListBox
Button
Sheet2
Frame2
Sheet3

To me this seems to provide some valuable context info that isn't immediatly available currently.

Anyone else like this idea? Hate it? why?

regards,
CR

by JADE Kid - Ray Hidayat >> Fri, 11 Aug 2000 6:30:48 GMT

I love this idea. It would give us a more detailed look and easier selection of controls.

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Ray Hidayat
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by Craig Shearer >> Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:53:13 GMT

a cool and groovy idea carl... especially since your requirement for bolding some entries in the treeview would be interesting since JADE's listbox control doesn't allow that

Craig.