Situations in Which an Attachment Is Ignored

These situations cause an attachment to be ignored:
  • The component is resized only horizontally, and the attachment is vertical in nature, or vice versa.
  • The attachment is attached to the side of a sibling, and the location of that side has not changed.
  • The component that is currently being resized is attached to the component that was originally moved or resized to propagate the event.
  • The attachment is single directional coming into the component instead of going out of the component.
  • The actual distance in pixels between the two attached components is within one-half character of the desired distance. This situation applies to both absolute and relative attachments. This shortcut is taken when a component is resized only if the component to be adjusted must be aligned on a character cell boundary or if the attachment has been previously synchronized.
  • The attachment is between one component in a group of multiple-selected components and another component, and the group of multiple-selected components is moved.
  • The attachment is associated with a component that uses the conformSize attribute. Attachments have the potential to conflict with the conformSize attribute.