Controls on Panel Spanning Pages

Question

Yesterday I created this:

Today I see this:

Anything that spans the centre has been broken.

Another one-page/two-page bug it would seem?

Comments

Dan - looks like any controls hanging over the page edge are being collected at the top left corner of the panel in one big stack.  All there, but losing their position.

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Defect, limitation, either way: yeah those controls cannot have their top left point off the first page, because they’ll get knocked back onto the first page.

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Thanks, guys. For the moment I've redesigned my Layout to respect the left/right page boundary and that's solved it.

(I'll be releasing this Layout into the wild once I can test and refine it - waiting for the synth to arrive).

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big up, thanks for understanding and for pushing forward!

Answer 1

A panel can span multiple pages but cannot contain buttons on multiple pages.

Controls Other/Unlisted Maker

Sorry to respond so late. I find that I can place a button across 2 pages, but panels cannot span multiple pages and contain buttons on both pages. To minimize the impact I create adjacent panels on each page to contain the buttons on that page. However a button that is split on two pages is not contained in either panel. Not sure if this what happened to you.

Comments

Yep, I take a similar approach, and I have managed to get around the problem. I do wish that when I asked for 'one big page' it would behave that way, though, without hangovers from the two-page design.

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Have you requested a Suggestion for a true one page without 2 page artifacts? I would support that. I don't like limiting MDP controls to be on one page or the other or splitting panels.

Pls Vote for my answer

This can be a bigger issue when the planned  Portrait Mode is released. I think at least the portrait mode needs to be one full page.

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I've several times spoken to the developer about this, and even suggested scrapping the two-page system altogether, but the feeling is that the two-page design has its benefits. That said, I do wish that choosing 'one big page' would fully remove all of the two-page functionality.

I don't understand 'vote for my answer'? What does that mean?

Answer 2

A panel can span multiple pages but cannot contain buttons on multiple pages.

Controls Other/Unlisted Maker

Sorry to respond so late. I find that I can place a button across 2 pages, but panels cannot span multiple pages and contain buttons on both pages. To minimize the impact I create adjacent panels on each page to contain the buttons on that page. However a button that is split on two pages is not contained in either panel. Not sure if this what happened to you.