Placing controls inside a rectangle control

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Hi,
I have a form with multiple fields, labels and other controls. If I wanted to visually separate these controls from other controls into separate sections, I understand I can place controls inside a Rectangle control, such that when I move the rectangle, all controls move with it.

Is there a quick way to move a group of controls into a Rectangle. The way I have been doing this is to select all controls and dragging them into the rectangle. But wasn’t sure if there was a way to draw rectangle around the controls and have them automatically embed themselves or something similar?

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Try putting the controls in a container the same size as the rectangle then position the container with the same coordinates as the rectangle. Also make sure to pay attention to the “behavior” settings.

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I don’t think there is a way to do this automatically, the only other way I can think of is:

  • drag the WebRectangle around the controls you want to embed in the rectangle
  • select all the controls (you may need to start outside the rectangle selecting it too)
  • if you selected the rectangle, just unselect the rectangle keeping all other controls selected
  • press any arrow key on your keyboard

moving the controls a pixel will make the rectangle the parent of all selected controls.

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