Form obscures Personal and Form Designer Toolbars

[Steven Kang]

This has become more annoying with the arrival of the new form designer toolbar. If you load a form (e.g. “checkin.sxf”) into Personal and then use the vertical scrollbar to scroll down the form, the top of the form moves up to overlay and obscure the toolbar. The same happens in Form Designer mode such that the form completly obscures both the tool bars. It is a similar issue at the bottom of the window where the form overlays the status bar area. Is this due to the Personal vertical scrollbar being drawn so that it extends into the Toolbars and Statusbar areas? In Superbase the vertical scrollbar does not extend into the Toolbar or Status bar areas. A related issue is that scrolling the form ofter causes the display image to “breakup” (?needs form refresh after using the scrollbar. Steven

[Michael]

On 10/10/2010 16:33, Steven Kang wrote:
> This has become more annoying with the arrival of the new form
> designer toolbar.
>
> If you load a form (e.g. "checkin.sxf") into Personal and then use
> the vertical scrollbar to scroll down the form, the top of the form
> moves up to overlay and obscure the toolbar.
>
> The same happens in Form Designer mode such that the form completly
> obscures both the tool bars.
>
> It is a similar issue at the bottom of the window where the form
> overlays the status bar area.
>
> Is this due to the Personal vertical scrollbar being drawn so that it
> extends into the Toolbars and Statusbar areas? In Superbase the
> vertical scrollbar does not extend into the Toolbar or Status bar
> areas.
>
> A related issue is that scrolling the form ofter causes the display
> image to "breakup" (?needs form refresh after using the scrollbar.

Hi Steven,

Regarding the bad paint job when scrolling, this issue has been around
for a while, and I am not particularly happy with it. I think it is
specific to Windows, since to check and see whether this is
SIMPOL-specific, I created a program in VB to compare with. First thing
I discovered was that VB only defines forms, not windows as such, and
forms can't have scrollbars. I eventually managed to work something up
that was similar and when I scrolled it the controls had the same redraw
issues, so I think this is a Windows painting issue. This basically
means don't scroll forms, add pages if you need to.

As for scrolling the form causing it to overwrite the status and tool
bars, as far as I can tell, this is a wxWidgets issue that I cannot
currently do much about, though it is on my fix list for when we have
time to start investigating their code (the goal was to not *have* to
make changes to their code if we could help it, and for the most part
that has been possible).

Ciao, Neil

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