BUG: Controls jump a few pixels when clicked

[ericonline]

Aggghhh! I have to report this as its been really tough on me lately. 

When clicking on a Control to edit, the Control jumps a few pixels usually in the Y direction, but not always. This forces me to continually realign controls throughout the build. When dealing with large Forms, this is especially annoying.

Please consider designating this as a BUG as it was not a problem in previous versions. 

Thank you

P.S. You might consider adding a "BUG" Label to the right pane of the Forum "New Message" screen. 

[v-monli-msft]

Hi @ericonline,

Please tell where did you encounter this issue? On a mobile or web browser? If it's former, is it iOS or Android os? If it's latter, is it IE/Chrome etc.? What is your PowerApps version number? Is it happening to all your apps or specific one? Please share your session ID if possible.

Regards,

Mona

[KOM_4410]

I've been having the same issue in the last few days.

[ericonline]

The issue happens in the authoring environment. When selecting a control to edit, the control will jump a few pixels. This misaligns the control and messes up any relative positioning you may have had. 

Example: 

• Label2
• X property set to Label1.X + Label1.Width
• When Label 2 is clicked to edit the text, it will "jump" a few pixels in the X direction
• Now Label2.X = 134 instead of the relative position it was originally set to

This is the same thing for the Y property. 

I use Chrome; happens in all my apps; I'm in West US (not sure which version of PA Web Studio I'm using).

[AKotb · Accepted solution]

Thanks for reporting the issue. we are working on fixing it.

currently there are two possible workarounds

1- use Edge or IE, this shouldn't happen on those two browsers (lets us know if you can see it happening there)

2- enable render in classic mode from File => AppSettings => Enable Render in classic mode

[ericonline]

@AKotb thank you for the prompt response on this!

[AKotb]

this should be fixed with the release 3.18074.16

please try enabling improved app rendering from App Settings and try it again

thanks

[ericonline]

Thank you for the response @AKotb. If this is under "Experimental Features" i'd prefer NOT to enable it. I've had some rough rides with enabling these recently. I'd rather wait for the bugfix to be enabled natively. 

[AKotb]

it is under preview features now. and enabling this is equivelant to setting Render in Classic mode off, which apparently you did in the mentioned post 🙂

[ericonline]

I just enabled the PREVIEW env. Is this staged in there as well?