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Add Link Objects leaves drop shadow

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When you click on the link to Add Link object and there are non the tooltip leaves behind a drop shadow

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Hello,

Different popup menu objects can leave this shadow. This is known problem, but it looks like a bug in VCL or something like that. We can't impact on this shadow in any way. Sorry.

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Andrew Kennard

Does the suggestion on here help ?

http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=53384

I personally don't think that particular tool tip adds very much information. Could it simply be removed ?

Thanks

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Andrew Kennard

Actually how do you add a linked object ? I can't seem to make this feature work or find anything in the help document

I'm obviously missing something obvious

It just keeps saying no objects

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Hello,

This shadow isn't from a tooltip, it's from the popup menu, so your suggestion won't help.

If there's no foreign keys in your database, there'll be no suggestions for linked objects. You can add some constraints to the Metadata Container programmatically. Or may be you want to hide that button?

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Andrew Kennard

Yes hiding the chain link button would be good as the relationships and business rule are not stored in the SQL database

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Ok, we'll do this. But please note that you can add business rules to the metadata container by yourself, so user will see related objects, and objects will be joined automatically: this will ease the query building process.

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Andrew Kennard

Thanks very much for considering this. You point about adding business rules to the metadata is noted. Thanks

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Andrew Kennard

I've just tried a DF version of the code on this page

http://www.activedbsoft.com/helpdesk/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=41

It worked and auto created the relationship between the two tables and when dragged them into the design area

When I click on the link chain the child table was shown and clicking on it brought another copy of it onto the design view linked to the parent

The drop shadow is still left behind after use

So I think the option to remove the link in the first place is better (for us .... but I appreciate we are not your only client!!)

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Andrey Zavyalov, PM

Set the ShowLinkedObjectsButton property to false to hide that button.