What's "Lock Controls" for ?

[joblake]

It's under the "Format" menu.

I've selected a group of controls and "Locked" them and then you can't move them on the form anymore...is that it?
What good is that?

What I'm looking for is a way to "group" several objects together as an entity so that I can move "it" around in tact without having to hand select each separate object.

[Static]

yes...lock the control so you dont accidentally move it.

to "group" some controls...you could stick them in a borderless PicBox


select all the controls... Cntrl - X to cut them

then add the pic box....select the pic box...then Paste them in

PicBox..like a frame...is a container

[joblake]

I didn't know that about the frame being a container. That's just what I needed to know geoff_xrx

Thanks.

John

[bradley252]

or if you wanna move several objects at the same time but keep them together. click one of them, hold CTR and click the others one by one!
simple yet effective!

[Static]

bradley...yeah that works...but i found it a pain when you have to do it a few times...or if you need to programically move the controls.

its better to dump them in a 'container' then you can move the container with code...and they all move along with it!