Anyone who has a form with a large number of controls spread over multiple pages will know that reordering the controls can be a tricky and frustrating task.

The Reorder Controls form offers an alternate mechanism for reordering controls on a window. This will be of most benefit to windows that have many hidden controls layered on top of each other or large windows with many controls.

To start this tool run the RGD_REORDER_CONTROLS window. Select the window to reorder from a list of windows for the current application. Once a window is selected all controls for that window (excluding GroupBoxes and TabControls which are always located at the end of the list of controls) will be listed.

Select which controls to move by clicking on them. Use the buttons on the right side of the list to move the controls UP, DOWN, TO THE TOP or TO THE BOTTOM of the list.

You can also use the following accelorator keys
Alt-T = Move to Top
Alt-U = Move Up One
Alt-D = Move Down One
Alt-B = Move To Bottom

By holding down the Shift key while clicking the UP or DOWN buttons, you can move the selected controls 10 positions at a time.

You can select a range of controls from the list by clicking on the first control you want then
shift clicking on the last control you want. All controls in-between will be selected. By pressing the Space Bar you can select/De-select the currently hightlighted row.

If you make a mistake or you wish to undo you changes, then click on the Undo Changes button.

Click on the UnSelect button to un-select all the currently selected rows.

Once you have finshed re-ordering the controls, click on the Save button or press Ctrl-S to save the changes. The windows' source version will be updated and then compiled to update the executable version.

Both the source and executable versions of the window will be flagged as changed in the repository. You can then use the RDK to deploy the changed versions of the form by selecting entities that have changed since a specified date.

This tool has been designed for OpenInsight v7.1 and above. Please do not use this on versions prior to v7.1