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Working with the Form Designer and the Menu Designer
You cannot move a group of components if components in the group
have different parent controls. For instance, let’s say you had selected
both a Button component on the main form and a SpeedButton on a
panel. Since these two components have different parent controls, you
cannot move them as a group.
Once you have a control selected, you can nudge the control by
holding down the Ctrl key while using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
This allows you to move the control one pixel at a time. This technique
works for both groups of controls and individual controls. The Snap to
Grid feature is overridden when you use this technique.
After you have moved a component using this method, the component
is no longer on a grid point—it is offset by some amount. If you now
drag the component, it will maintain its offset from the grid point as
you drag.
If you have moved a control using the Ctrl+arrow method and want to
again align it to the grid, choose Edit | Align to Grid from the main
menu or choose Align to Grid from the local menu. The control’s topleft
corner will snap to the nearest grid point.
A control cannot be dragged outside its parent. If you drag a component off the left or top
edge of the form, you will see that the component is clipped at the edge of the form. If,
however, you drag the component off the right or bottom of the form and drop it, scrollbars
will appear on the form to allow you to scroll to see the rest of the form. The Width and Height
properties of the form are not altered. If you drag the component back onto the visible part
of the form, the scrollbars disappear again. This is the default behavior and will occur unless
you change the AutoScroll property of the form to False. Figure 7.5 shows a Memo component
that has been dragged partially off the left edge of the form. Notice the scrollbar that appears
at the bottom of the form.
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