So, I'm a little frustrated that someone in HR decided to force a .dotm template into my MS Word, which ultimately created a custom ribbon tab. This tab is annoying because it's not what I need, it's the first tab, and it's the default tab (instead of "Home"). They've also locked out the associated .dotm file from modification or moving.
Are there any other methods to remove (or at least move) the tab? I was thinking there might be VBA code to force some changes every time MS Word is opened. This would allow the tab, but then immediately move/remove it.
Ideas?
Thanks!
Brian
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When I'm in Access and using a Tab Control, if I copy a button on one tab and paste it to the same tab, this button becomes visible on all tabs. In fact, I think all controls do (I know it happened with buttons and labels).
Is there a way to fix this, or do I have to delete the copied controls and re-draw them on the tab they're supposed to be visible on? Is there a setting that fixes this? I've got a few pages where it'd be handy to be able to copy a chunk of controls and paste them onto a different tab.
This is an old issue that needs to be closed out. The OP #Johnny Bones talks about his answer in the comments but never posted what he did to fix it as an answer.
The answer is that the object was pasted in at the wrong level, the form level. Form level objects are seen on every Tab Page.
To fix this
Cut the object again
Select the Tab Page you want the object to live inside
Paste it there
Move it to the correct location
I want to give my users the option of opening a tab into its own window rather than merely switching the current window’s display to that tab. I have lots of tabs in my app, and the user often wants to study a few of those over long periods of time. For example, the user may watch charts being updated over time via Push.
Currently I add an "Open Window" button to a tab's layout. This opens a new browser window with the current tab’s layout.
Is there any other way to do this? A context-menu on the tab itself? User holding down a keyboard modifier (Control key, Command key, Option/Alt key) while clicking the tab?
Actually, there is one trick:
tabSheet.setCloseHandler((tabsheet, tabContent) -> {/** make new window **/});
Of course it works if tabSheet is closeable.
So if anybody click close button then you could do your own logic - in this example open new window.
But it could be misleading. To handle this problem you could replace close caption from x to any other more meaningful sign.
For example, look at Valo TabSheet demo. If you look in HTML code, than you notice something like this:
<span class="v-tabsheet-caption-close" aria-hidden="true" aria-disabled="true">×</span>
I think you are able to change this x using for example JavaScript.
Im having an intermittent problem where forms open in view mode but minimised, looking like a small inch-sized box with the 'X' close button visible.
It normally seems to happen when Ive made a change to the form or code in the forms module, but happens randomly when being used in view mode.
I can only get round it by either re-importing a backup of the form or making the form border sizeable, either way it's not too professional.
Any ideas how I can solve this one?
Docmd.Restore seems to work on the form load event
(a) TIMTOWTDI =. there is more than one way to do it
(b) TIOOWTDI =. there is only one way to do it
i do not know if the case for this issue is (a) or (b), above.
The follow links may apply to this discussion:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.onbeforeunload
MSDN beforeunload | onbeforeunload event
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-LC/history.html#unloading-documents
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-LC/history.html#beforeunloadevent
... Note: There are no BeforeUnloadEvent-specific initialization methods.
please note: i am not discussing SO article 276660 "How can I override the OnBeforeUnload dialog and replace it with my own? which is about the text that the end-user sees in the dialog box; i found SO article 276660 via the first reply to this discussion: suggestion: change default for are you sure that you want to navigate away from this page? from OK to Cancel
My issue with how various browsers behave is the need to prevent the end user from losing her/his typed data because she/he accidentally clicked away from a page; such a disaster can easily occur if she/he happens to press the space bar shortly after the dialog box has been displayed; "disaster" may seem like a very strong word unless you are the end user who has just lost an hour or two of typing.
i. is JavaScript the only way to prevent this?
ii. is there some way to tell the end users' browsers to make Cancel the default?
Clarification (i hope): in a Windows O/S dialog box, it is possible to tell the Windows O/S which button to highlight as the default; for example, if the message were something like "delete all of my files", a default of "OK" is a bad idea.
SO frequently saves my text as i'm composing a question; other forums do not do the same.
i'm guessing that if my laptop were to crash as i'm writing this message then SO would give me some way to recover close to the point where i am at this moment.
Will someone please tell me whether there are one or more ways with regards to browsers, and, if there are, where to find more information?
imho, setting the default dialog box button to "OK" is far too dangerous because accidentally hitting the space bar could cause a lot of grief.
Thank you.
In an Access (2002 / 2003) data-bound form, a turn of the mousewheel moves to the next/previous record, even if the cursor is inside a multiline text field or a listbox. This is a major annoyance to users and cannot be turned off easily.
I recently discovered a DLL called MouseHook (http://www.lebans.com/mousewheelonoff.htm) which can effectively block this mousewheel behavior and replace it with more expected behavior.
However, when an external ActiveX control is added to an Access form, this module does nothing. For example, I have a form with a FlexGrid control on it, and it can contain a lot of rows. When a user tries to scroll in there using the mousewheel, Access again simply goes to another record instead, even with MouseHook DLL loaded.
Is there a solution like MouseHook DLL but which also works for external ActiveX controls? Or is the source code of the MouseHook DLL available so it can be modified to deal with controls like FlexGrid?
PS: I wanted to ask the author of MouseHook DLL, but he is currently "on a hiatus" until June 2009.
If you really have to alter the UI and change how the user expects the mouse wheel to work, I would actually recommend just disabling it rather than altering how it scrolls. While it's scrolling may seem odd to you, it is how the program works. What would you do if you had to read PDF's all day, and then one day one person decided that the way the mouse wheel scrolling worked wasn't good enough and changed to so it defaulted to huge jumps or horizontal or whatever. Yes, it may have been a better solution, however it is annoying to the user because it doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
Why are you using a flexgrid in Access? To me, this is a read flag that you likely are approaching the project with an Access-hostile point of view, since you seem to be choosing non-native controls to do things that are almost always much more easily accomplished with Access's native controls.
Hook the flexgrid, intercept the WM_MOUSEWHEEL message, ignore it and call your intended behaviour.
Not a direct answer to your question, but the way we deal with the mouse wheel movement is to prevent accidental changes of records after the user has started editing. When the user opens the form, the wheel moves the records willy-nilly as normal. As soon the user edits something on the field, and then moves the mouse wheel, the BeforeUpdate event fires, which causes our code to put up a prompt saying they must save the record first. We have a save button which the user must explicitly press to supress the warning in the BeforeUpdate event.