Where is my textbox label??

[mikeallenbrown]

In a UX when a textbox is placed inside an absolute container the field label is missing ...when I place the textbox outside of the container it reappears. Am I supposed to something special for the label to appear in an absolute container??

[Clipper87]

Re: Where is my textbox label??

Seems that only radiobuttons & checkboxex have a property "custom layout when in Absolute layout container" and when selected that gives you another property "suppress labels when in Absolute layout container"

It looks as if this has not been implemented for the other controls

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: Where is my textbox label??

In a UX when a textbox is placed inside an absolute container the field label is missing ...when I place the textbox outside of the container it reappears. Am I supposed to something special for the label to appear in an absolute container??

the expectation when you are using an absolute layout is that you have a bitmap background of a form. this bitmap has labels for fields. in the absolute layout designer you are going to place the input controls over the fields on the bitmap. but you want to use the labels on the bitmap for each field - NOT the labels that are defined in the UX builder.

therefore when you place an input control in an absolute layout, only the control itself is rendered - the label for the control is ignored.

if you want to put your own labels in the absolute layout container, then you must define some static text controls that have the label text and then you can position these controls next to fields in the absolute layout editor.

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: Where is my textbox label??

you are confusing radio button labels with the label for a control.

if you have a textbox (say) that has a field label for (say) 'Firstname' then when you put this control in an absolute layout only the text box is show - the field label is not shown (this is true for all control types, including radio buttons).

if you have a radio button (say) that has choices: red, green, blue and a field label of 'Favorite Color', when you place this control in an absolute layout, the Field Label ('Favorite Color') is not show, but the control labels (red, green, blue) are shown. If they were not shown you have three meaningless radio buttons with no labels next to them.

However, the ability to suppress the control labels (red, green, blue) is important in the case that you have an image background with the radio button choices.

[Davidk]

Re: Where is my textbox label??

I was just playing with this and find that using a static text control doesn't play well in the absolute layout container. But... the Label Control works great.

[mikeallenbrown]

Re: Where is my textbox label??

Thanks for the clarification Selwyn.