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I'm getting some strange behaviour in the Application Browser. The Application browser is displaying the controls from a card that has several groups on it. I want to bring up the property inspector of an object that is witihin the group without having to ungroup. I right click on the object in question in the Application browser window and select the Property Inspector menu item. The inspector window that is displayed is for the group, not the object within the group that I just right clicked on. Same thing happens if I double click the object in the app browser window. Yet of I select the edit script item from the right click menu, the correct script is displayed.

This means that every time I want to edit something in the property inspector for an object in a group, I have to ungroup, select the object, make my changes, then group everything back together again. Big pain.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Pete

What is the status of the 'Select grouped controls' button in the toolbar?
Rather than ungrouping-and-regrouping the group, you can also use the 'Edit group' button in the toolbar.
Also, groups now have an individual 'selectGroupedControls' property that overrides this global setting.

Jan Schenkel.

Thanks Jan, I will check into all those suggestions.

The "selectGroupedControls" property you mentioned - is that new in 4.0? I've downloaded 4.0 but haven't tried it yet. If it is a 4.0 addition, I don;t see anything about it in the release notes. I have to say I find the doumentation in general for Revolution somewhat of a challenge since it's scattered all over the place, and their release notes are pretty silent about anything about except major new features and the catch-all "bug fixes".

Does anyone know of a list somewhere of all the changes (including bug fixes) in 4.0?

Thanks Pete

The 'selectGroupedControls' global property has always existed, and is what drives the toolbar button.
The 'selectGroupedControls' group property was added in version 3.5 - as part of the custom controls effort, along with behaviors.
The Application Browser takes the group property into account to hide the 'innards' of custom control groups.

Jan Schenkel.

Thanks Jan, that's invaluable information, wish I had discovered it about 3 months ago!
Pete