Help! I've lost a button!

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bjb007
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Help! I've lost a button!

Post by bjb007 » Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:26 am

I accidently typed a number in the Property
Inspector which has made a button disappear.

Would like to get it back but as I have nothing
to click on I can't change anything.

Bet there's a way to do it.

All suggestions welcome.
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Found the answer so for your info...

Open Property Inspector with any other object.
Click on the -> under the lock symbol.
Choose "Inspect/buttons" from the menu.
Find your lost button/object and change the
location from 2220 to 220 - or whatever you want.

Lost button/object appears as if by magic.

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Post by deeverd » Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:19 pm

Hello bjb007,

Whenever looking for anything that disappeared, simply go to the "application browser." It will bring up an entire tree map of every stack and card and object on every stack in current memory.

From that tree map, simply right click on any item that is listed as a button (in the event that the button doesn't have a specific name) and you can open up the property inspector for that object. See if the "visible" box is checked or not. Once you check that it should be visible, you should see it on your card again.

Cheers, deeverd

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