Well, what do you know ? I thought I had filed a request for Parent to be read/write, and could not locate any FR. So I filed one.
<https://xojo.com/issue/47897>
And I filed a bug report for the changing parent state. That won’t help me much, though. I am too chicken to change development tool for an almost complete project, but frankly, that is mighty annoying.
<https://xojo.com/issue/47898>
Actually, the only I found to prevent the control to become child again is to move it 1 pix away from the parent for those that are at left offset = zero. For controls that are inside and cannot be placed that way, the only solution I have is to move the control in place in Open 