Problems with docking

[josc]

I have some troubles with docking.

Docking with containers in containers moves components to different container.

Create a new report.
Add a container on it (Container1)
Add a container in container1 (Container2)
Add a textbox in container2.

Now change the docking of textbox to top.

The textbox will dock itself to the top of container2 as it is supposed to do.
Now click on the textbox. It will dock itself to the top of container1 and the
textbox is moved to container1.

[Vital]

At this moment this problem exist. We will prepare patch for this problem.
When it will be available we inform you.

p.s. You can use property Link.

Thank you.

[josc]

Thanks for your swift reply.

I've got yet another problem with docking.

The docking seems to rely on the order that the fields where added to a container or band.

If i have added controls in wrong order, there is no means to change it, except removing the
controls from the container and ad them again in different order.

Is there a way that we can change the control order from the report tree, orelse
change the way the docking works by applying the docking in the order
the docking property is set on the controls ?

btw Great product, I'm recommending it to my client.

[Brendan]

You can change the Order of Controls by selecting them and either Right clicking and using "Bring to Front" or "Send to Back". An alternative is to select the control and use the Toolbar which also has a "Bring to Front", "Send to Back", "Move Forward" and "Move Backward". They are yellow/gray overlaping icons in the toolbar.

[josc]

Great, I didn't know that !!

Although the buttons have confusing meaning to me.

"Move forward" moves the component to the back of the component list and
so with all components set to dock left, it moves the component to the right.
While "Move backward" moves the component towards the beginning of the list.

This is the opposite of what seems natural to me.
But that's just me, I'm very happy with this solution

Thanks for your reply.

[Edward]

I have some troubles with docking.

Docking with containers in containers moves components to different container.

Create a new report.
Add a container on it (Container1)
Add a container in container1 (Container2)
Add a textbox in container2.

Now change the docking of textbox to top.

The textbox will dock itself to the top of container2 as it is supposed to do.
Now click on the textbox. It will dock itself to the top of container1 and the
textbox is moved to container1.

Fixed.
Patch will be available in the build from January, 5.

Thank you.