Corruption line

General
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In my project I have a ContainerControl with a horizontal line at the top.
Various times when iI run the program the horizontal line is completely off.
It isn’t horizontal anymore.

When I look at the Inspector, it’s wrong too.
The Inspector is completely mixed up.

It should be.

Is this a known bug?

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Yes, it is a known bug. Use a separator or a 1 px high rectangle instead.

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I’ve seen it plenty of times and no longer use the line control - whether it’s this bug or trying to grab them and move them… just too annoying.

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Amazingly enough, “Line” leads to no result in Feedback. That old and well known bug seems not to have been ever reported.

Maybe it is time. Anybody got a sample project with a line going awry ?

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Yeah, actually it was reported … it has the distinction of being the very first bug I encountered after starting with Xojo.
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I’m like Gavin … gave up trying to use the line at all … using a rectangle with 1px or 2px width does the job without any of the “line” headaches.

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[quote=154495:@Don Lyttle]Yeah, actually it was reported … it has the distinction of being the very first bug I encountered after starting with Xojo.
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I’m like Gavin … gave up trying to use the line at all … using a rectangle with 1px or 2px width does the job without any of the “line” headaches.[/quote]

OK. I found <https://xojo.com/issue/27420> reported back in June 2013 ! Apparently at the time it was about lines in containers.

I added this :

Lines misbehave not only in containers but when placed on a window as well.

The problem periodically rises again and again, and each time we all recommend using separators, 1 px wide or tall rectangles, or canvases.

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I did not realize the bug had been reported as far back as June 2013. Would it not be simpler to remove the line entirely, if it decidedly cannot behave ?

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Thanks for adding that clarification to the feedback report, Michel. I think that better characterizes the observed issue.

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Thanks for the replies.
I’ve changed the lines into rectangles 1px high.
Works fine now.

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Given the content of the thread at the time, I was surprised Manuel limited that to containers and nobody noticed.

I just regret nobody seems to have had the good idea to post a project that shows the line going crazy.

Vertical and horizontal can be replaced fairly easily, but at any angle, a working line would really be necessary. I wonder if reinstating by code x,y and x1,y1 would be a valid workaround.