Control's anchor property doesn't work in Fox9

[dk2006]

I am fustrated with Anchor property in Fox9. I doesn't seem to work. For example, I have an image on the top right hand corner. I want it to anchor to top right hand corner. On the Anchor property setup screen, I select Top and Right. The result, my image is displayed at top left hand corner but bound to the top right hand corner. I'm confused. It's not as easy as VB.NET.

Anyone has any idea?

Thank you,
dk

 

[dk2006]

I have to set ShowWindow property to 0 (In Screen) to get it to work.

 

[dk2006]

The only problem is I need to set my ShowWindow property ot 2 in order to get rid of FoxPro environment screen. How can I get around this?

 

[craigsboyd]

dk2006,

Are you saying that the following doesn't work for you? (cut-n-paste the code below into a VFP prg and execute it)

PUBLIC goForm as form
goForm = CREATEOBJECT("Form1")
WITH goForm
	.Addobject("Image1", "Image")
	WITH .Image1
		.picture=HOME(4) + "BITMAPS\ASSORTED\BEANY.BMP"
		.move(.parent.width - .width, 0, .width, .height)
		.Anchor = 9
		.visible = .T.
	ENDWITH
	.Show()
ENDWITH

DEFINE CLASS Form1 as Form
	ShowWindow = 2
ENDDEFINE

When I run that the image shows up in the upper right-hand corner of the form and stays there even when the form is resized.

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[Mike Lewis]

DK,

What (numeric) values are you actually setting the anchor to?

Assuming you don't want to resize the image, I would guess that you should be setting it to 144. I suggest you ignore the anchor builder screen, and just try that number.

By the way, chaning the ShowWindow property shouldn't make any difference one way or the other, as far as I know.

Mike

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[craigsboyd]

An anchor value of 144 will yield relative spacing with the top and the right of the form when it is resized, while 9 will give you absolute spacing with the top and the right of the form.

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