Android Question Anchored view click in Abstract Designer

[CristiMatei]

Hi.

I searched the forum but I did not find a reference to this issue.
I have 2 panels as in the pictures attached. panel1 is parent for panel2.
I used anchor LEFT and BOTTOM to put panel2 in the lower left corner of panel1.
So far so good, but, when I click the panel2 in abstract designer it moves as in the picture attached and the Bottom edge Distance property becomes negative number.

Is this normal, or I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you for your patience.

 

[Erel]

Can you upload the layout file?

 

[CristiMatei]

Here you go.
It is made for testing purposes only.

 

[Erel]

I don't see any "jumpiness". The negative values are correct as Panel2 bottom edge is lower than its parent bottom edge.

 

[CristiMatei]

I've done this in this order:

Create panel1 to fill screen.
Create panel2 with panel1 as parent and sized it as in second image.
Set anchors for panel2 to LEFT and BOTTOM and made sure that Bottom Edge Distance is 0.

NOW when I click again panel2 in Abstract designer it moves by itself in the new position (last image) and Bottom Edge Distance becomes a negative number. I never inserted the value -276 anywhere. Why does not remain the panel2 in the place that I put it?

Thank you.

 

[Erel]

Is there any chance that you are running v3.20 BETA?

 

[CristiMatei]

I have installed the IDE from your email link.
Purchased it again and installed over the previous version.
Below, screenshot of the About window:

I am the only one who's experiencing that behavior ?

Thank You.

 

[Erel]

You are running the correct version. This jumping issue happens every time you press on the panel?

I'm wasn't able to reproduce it with the layout you attached. I see that the variant is different. Does you see this behavior with this layout?

 

[CristiMatei]

Yes. It happens when I change the anchor from TOP or LEFT to BOTTOM or RIGHT. The panel jumps in that direction and the property "Bottom edge distance" or "Right edge distance" jumps to a negative number. If I use BOTH anchor then the panel jumps too. It doesn't matter which view I choose to anchor it happens the same way. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the application, it behaves the same way. What I noticed is that if I downloaded a sample made by somebody else the issue is gone. So maybe observing the differences between the same project made on my laptop and the project made by somebody else could be of use in resolving this issue. Unfortunately I'm not able to do this and is very frustrating.

Thank you Erel.

 

[CristiMatei]

If I let the values of "Bottom edge distance" as in the picture attached and I click on panel2 then it stays in place no matter how many times I click on it.

If I change the "Bottom edge distance" value to 0 and then I click on the panel2 it jumps away to the bottom and the "Bottom edge distance" value jumps to -251.

If I'm not doing anything else but click panel2 again it jumps out of sight (layout height) and the "Bottom edge distance" value jumps to -501.

This is crazy.

 

[Erel]

I see it now. It is a bug that happens with nested views when the zoom level is 50%. For now you will need to use 100% zoom instead.

It will be fixed in the next update.

 

[CristiMatei]

Cool.
One step forward for b4a.

Best regards.
Cristian