Copy & Paste with large frames

I'm working on a project that uses a frame that is very long (heightwise) and uses almost 300 controls. My problem is that when pasting multiple controls they are placed at the top left corner of the frame and it is extremely frustrating to have to drag each individual control down the frame because you lose focus every time you move the frame. It's probably hard to understand the problem unless you've had to do it... heh heh.

So i'm wondering if anyone has a workaround or a way of changing the default position of where pastes are placed?

why are you pasting the controls onto the form?

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It's an array of 66 images with associated labels etc. 6 across and 11 down. And the the frame is much larger than the form. I think it would be a toss up between pasting & dragging method and drawing each control individually.

you should be able to know the position of the controls and even workout the relative values of top and left for eacdh control and therefore place each control programatically

if you store the values in an ini type structure you can even move controls so that they make sense at different resolutions.

this is a common enough activity

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Or just paste away, then save and go edit the Form by hand with Notepad to change the positions. If you need this a lot maybe write a program to process a .FRM file to space 'em out vertically. :p

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Originally Posted by dilettante

Or just paste away, then save and go edit the Form by hand with Notepad to change the positions. If you need this a lot maybe write a program to process a .FRM file to space 'em out vertically. :p

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Wow... i didn't know you could do that with notepad. I think that will help, thanks.

if you did not know that do you know this

if you make a new shortcut to notepad and place that in the folder where your frms are you simply drag the form to it to edit!

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