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Old 07-03-2008, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by BjornF View Post
I believe you can detect the x/y coordinates by using the door library (see e.g. this thread: http://www.basic4ppc.com/forum/questions-help-needed/2517-get-x-y-when-over-control.html)
I was hoping to avoid attaching an event to every object on my form, but if all else fails, this is what I'll have to go with.

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An alternative which I have used is to actually only employ a small number of labels with fixed positions, and just change the content of the labels instead of actually creating a large number of labels/panels.
This is a good idea and I might use it in another part of my program but it won't work in this case. Here, some of my records contain only 1 label while others can have as many as 20 on multiple lines.
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