Panel: is it transparent to underlying views?

[Beja]

friends,

I put a few buttons on Activity, blanket them allover with a panel then put
new buttons on the panel, making their parent Panel1. but to my surprise,
when I clicked on an area on the panel, where a button is hiding behind in the
activity, that button's code is executed.
I thought Panels are containers and can not act on views' events
that don't belong to them.

Any help?
Thanks in advance.

 

[thedesolatesoul]

You need to consume the panel click event otherwise it will go through to underlying views.
You can do this by simple creating a Panel_Touch sub. I am not sure whether or not you need to return True/False, but surely you can experiment with that.

 

[mc73]

You need to consume the panel click event otherwise it will go through to underlying views.
You can do this by simple creating a Panel_Touch sub. I am not sure whether or not you need to return True/False, but surely you can experiment with that.

I used to add the panel_touch, but in later versions, I think that simply a panel_click will consume the event. Works for me, but who knows of course

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Sorry yes, it should be Panel_Click I believe.

 

[Beja]

Thanks guys so much..
So I will exitsub whenever the panel is touched!

 

[merlin2049er]

Hmm, how about some sample code? I think I tried adding a panel_click sub in my code, but it wasn't consumed.

 

[klaus]

This is an old thread !

I think I tried adding a panel_click sub in my code, but it wasn't consumed.

What exactly did you do ?
Without seeing what you have done and how impossible to give you a concrete advice !

 

[merlin2049er]

Sorry, I'm away from my dev. pc. I'll post what I tried tonight.

 

[Picena Informatica]

I do:

sub panel_click
dim i as int=0
i=i+1
end sub

 

[Beja]

sub panel_click
dim i as int=0
i=i+1
end sub

Yet easier:

sub panel_click
Return
end sub

 

[merlin2049er]

ok, tried that.

So, the buttons under that panel (which are partially visible) are still clickable.

 

[Beja]

check the attached test project

 

[klaus]

You can even simply use:

Sub Panel1_Click

End Sub

On my device your code works as expected !
If you click on the button in an area where the button is covered by the panel nothing happens.
If you click on a visible area of the button, the Button1_Click event is, of cours, fired.

 

[merlin2049er]

Oh OK, got it. I will just resize my panel (s) to cover the underlying buttons.