André Labuschagné: WDM22 - Planes

Autor: André Labuschagné

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Hi All

I need to see which controls are on which plane. Is there a simple way
to do this without checking each control?

Cheers
André

Autor: rob willis

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I don't want to sound terse but Page Up / Page Down will display the
various planes

Autor: André Labuschagné

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Hi Rob

Sure - any help is most welcome - who knows, I may have never worked out
the page up and page down thing.

What I am looking for is a list of the planes with their respective
controls listed against them - I have many hidden controls and controls
inside loopers that I actually cannot see. So without selecting the
looper ones individually - especially the strings - I cannot work out
what is where.

Does that make sense?

Cheers
André

Autor: InfosPilot

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The simplest way is to open control

Autor: Erik Schwarz

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Hi André,

what's about the Project Explorer, I can expand every part as far as I
want.

Other Thing: the Project documentation
Depending what you are clicking on you'll get a pdf with every detailed
Information about every control including the code used.

Hope this helps

Erik

Autor: Fabrice Harari

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Hi

not sure... I think that if you press f12, the window with the list of
controls is organized by planes.

Best regards

Autor: André Labuschagné

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Hi All

I sorted this by using Erik's solution. There I can zero in on the
Loopers where these hidden controls reside. Did not take that long -
have around 30 mobile apps I had to work through with perhaps 15 loopers
per app. Nice and neat now. Will be very careful when a new plane is
used - will check immediately that hidden controls are on the correct
plane.

Thanks for all the help - you folk are all really great.

Cheers

André

Autor: Piet van Zanten

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Hi André,

How exactly do you hide these controls in such a way that you cannot
find them?
They are always visible in the editor (at least in Webdev, as I don't
use the other WX products anymore).
Perhaps if you place them off screen, (a Windev technique as I
remember), but with planes there's no need for that.
I place hidden controls always on an unused plane now, no need to even
make them invisible.
You can use a temporary button or link to make the plane with the
"hidden"controls visible at runtime for debugging purposes.

Kind regards,
Piet

Autor: André Labuschagné

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Hi Piet

You wrote:

>> How exactly do you hide these controls in such a way that you cannot
find them?

They are string controls in a looper with no default text in them so
they cannot be seen in the IDE. Zero text means zero visibility without
hovering over the contents of the control.

Cheers

André

Autor: Piet van Zanten

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Hi André,

O, I see, but these are just attributes of the looper.
They are not called controls and cannot be assigned to a plane.
So you got answers to a completely different issue.

Kind regards,
Piet.

Autor: DW

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Andre,

What if you went to the display tab on the menu bar and turned on
"Surface of Controls" or "Boarders" under the "Show (all the controls)"
section.

DW

Autor: Piet van Zanten

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Hi André,

DW got it nailed. I misinterpreted "empty strings" to be attributes with
no control attached.
I have show borders always on, so I could not imagine that you could not
see these controls.

Kind regards,
Piet

Autor: André Labuschagné

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ROFL!

Thanks DW and Piet - I had no idea about those settings.

Too many IDEs and languages for my me.

The boarders thing did the trick.

Cheers
André