>I've modified one of my forms to allow drag/drop positioning of text boxes/labels. I'm using the manual drag/drop methods.
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>This all works fine, except when dragging anything outside of a 640 x 480 area, the grey outline disappears - the object is dragged/dropped correctly, it's just not obvious where its going to land. If the object starts outside the region, it's not obvious that it's being dragged.
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>I can't find which properties of the main form (I assume that's where I should be looking) I should modify. Can anyone help ?
Change the maximum design area.
In VFP6 (translated back from Spanish): Tools | Options, Forms, Maximum design area.
Keeping a design area of 800 x 600 allows you to detect trouble, if you expect users to have this resolution.
Hilmar.
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