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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:51:30 -0600, mike_maurer@autosoft.com wrote:

>I am working on a simple About box that displays some info. It is a Dialog
>with a BevelPanel, some text labels, and an OK button that closes the
>dialog. The code looks fine, and it runs perfect. I was able to visually
>build it just fine in the form designer. But now the designer has suddenly
>gone wacky on me!
>
>I cannot click on certain controls to select them. They act like they
>would in a running program! When I click on a button it depresses. I
>cannot grab it and move it to another location on the dialog. But I can
>select it by clicking on its name over in the navigator pane, and then
>edit the properties. I tried dropping other controls onto the form, and
>they had the same problem. Click on a checkbox and it checks or unchecks.
>If I add some tooltip text for these controls over in the property
>inspector, then the tooltip text will pop up when I enter them with the
>mouse pointer. Just exactly like it should work in a running program. But
>remember, I'm in the form designer and have not yet run the program at
>all!
>
>I blew away the whole project, rebooted, created a new project, and
>added my source files back in (this has fixed other mysterious problems
>for me in the past). But it still has the same problem.
>
>What in the heck is going on here?!

Very strange.  I haven't heard of this problem before.

It sounds as if the 'this' property in the Component Tree has it's
'Enabled' property set to True.  Is that the case?




Andrew
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