Every once in a while this drives me crazy: I want to move a control to some precise location, WITHOUT any kind of "snapping" -- snap-to-grid, snap-to-guidelines, snap-to-border, etc... and Delphi won't let me. Is there a key combination that one can use while dragging to temporarily turn off any and all "snapping"? I seem to recall it being available in D6, but can't for the life of me find a similar combination in D2007, short of going into Tools -> Options, etc... (which kind of defeats the purpose).
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Drag with the Alt key down to disable snapping to the grid. Snapping to objects will remain in effect. You can use Ctrl with the arrow keys to move one pixel at a time. You can also type the desired coordinates into the Object Inspector.
Rob Kennedy
2009-06-08 21:51:09
Thanks. I did finally find that Ctrl = Arrow Keys thing -- very helpful. (It also appears that Shift + Arrow Keys does the same thing for width/height). SO those two together have been very helpful. No way to temporarily turn off object-snapping though, that you know of, huH? That is what seems to be the one that snags me. I like it on most of the time, but sometimes... it makes me kinda crabby. ;-)Thanks Rob for taking the time to respond -- much appreciated!
Jamo
2009-06-08 22:13:42
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In Delphi 2009 CodeGear has changed the behavior of ALT+Move to also disable the designer guide lines. But in Delphi 2007 this feature can't be turned off without an external tool.
On of those tools (and I think the only that can do this) is the DDevExtensions 1.6 IDE plugin that adds this ability to ALT+Move for Delphi 2007.
Andreas Hausladen
2009-06-09 10:30:36