| Subject: html/asp.net designer refuses to resize controls with the keyboard? |
| Group: microsoft.public.vstudio.general |
| Date: 9/17/2008 6:49:06 AM |
| From: "Andy B" [Email Address Protection] |
Hi... At this point, I can't use a mouse due to physical imitations. I found a way to resize controls and drag them around the designer using the keyboard! Pretty cool if I had to say so myself! Anyways, I found these hotkeys to be quite useful when dragging/resizing controls with the keyboard: down / up arrow: moves the control vertically on the page. current size is retained. left / right arrow: Moves the control horizontally across the page. Current size is retained. Add control key to move larger blocks of pixels (usually grid size). control shift right/left arrows: change the controls width. control shift up/down arrows: Change the controls height. I found a few problems with some of these controls and I was wondering if somebody can help me figure out how to fix it. 1. Control shift up/down arrows don't actually change the controls height. Does anybody know how to do this with the arrow keys? 2. After selecting a control inside of another one (A label inside a div for example), changing it's position or size either fails with the arrow keys or isn't reported on the status bar. Almost all of the time it fails and then tries to change the position/dimensions of the parent control (the div in this case). Is there a way around this? Basically, I need finer/greater control of the controls position/size in the designer using the keyboard/arrow keys. I tried using the format>position... dialog to work around this, but it seems like using the keyboard to drag and resize is more understandable (probbably because I can see it as it moves). Any help would be greatful... |
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