Que: How to lock down controls when using Visual Inheritance?

[Larry Leach]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to lock the positions of controls inherited from
another form? That is, I want to inherit controls from a parent form, but
reposition them on the child form (and have them stay put!).

I can manually reposition the controls at run time, but as the number of
controls increase this becomes a real nightmare to work with at design time.

Thanks,

-ldl-

[Paul Mc]

G'day Larry,

In the base form that you are inheriting from, modify the control declaration
from Friend to: Protected Friend,Protected, or Public. Any of these seem
to do the trick...

Pretty well stuffed if you are inheriting a form from someone elses compiled
package, I guess "8-(


Hope this helps,
Paul

[Larry Leach]

I'm using Protected now (I also tried Public and Protected Friend) - these
settings do let me rearrange the controls, but there is this confounded
'shift' thing (which I consider a definite bug) that is driving me nuts.

I'm not sure of all the scenarios, but often, making a change to either of
the screens causes all of the inherited controls to revert to their
positions on the base screen. This is really a problem for me (I'm making
heavy use of the feature, three levels deep). I guess I will submit a bug
report to Microsoft and hope for the best.

Thanks for trying,

-ldl-

"Paul Mc" <paulmc@nospam.thehub.com.au> wrote in message
news:3c0415b7$1@147.208.176.211...
>
> G'day Larry,
>
> In the base form that you are inheriting from, modify the control
declaration
> from Friend to: Protected Friend,Protected, or Public. Any of these seem
> to do the trick...
>
> Pretty well stuffed if you are inheriting a form from someone elses
compiled
> package, I guess "8-(
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Paul
>