On 7/28/05 8:39 PM, Matt Ackeret didst favor us with:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Douglas Norton wrote:
>> Knowing that I can select in order and that the single Bring To Front
>> operation works on the selected items in the order I selected them is also a
>> bonus.
>
> Seems like you're doing this in a very roundabout way.
Not at all. It's about as easy and straightforward a way as I can imagine.
>
> In IB, at least in the one that shipped with Tiger, you can select the
> WINDOW, and bring up the Inspector to the Window section (cmd-2), and
> drag controls around in the list to set the tab order.
You can do this in Panther too, but as you point out it's not so easy to use
when items don't have signatures. Or, if you don't always remember
immediately the relationship between the signatures and how the items are
laid out in the window.
>
> There are some issues with this inspector (that I've written up), like
> if you have multiple controls without signatures, you can't tell them apart.
> But you can double-click on any one in the inspector to select it in the
> window. Overall, it's way less of a pain than selecting each item and
> doing Bring to Front, IMHO..
I disagree. How many items are you typically arranging in a window?
> (or even cmd-clicking each item in order in
> ResEdit dialogs.. uggggh)
I'm not sure why you say ugh. Command-clicking them in the desired order is
the easiest approach one could ask. Certainly easier than trying to remember
where three dozen controls lie with respect to one another by looking at
their signatures in a list and then dragging them around in that list.
Larry
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