I Have made a form which contains only a tabbed Canvas with three tabs each tab has one data block, I Have also one button which is the Exit button that belongs to one tab (It's not optional from what I see, I have to make the button belongs to one of the three tabs or more specifically to one of the three data blocks).
My problem is that the button will not be displayed when I run the form Unless I Do something with the tab that it belongs to.
But I want it to be displayed unconditionally.
Is there any way to make the button belongs to the Empty Content Canvas
instead of the tab canvas??
I Figured it out, Indeed the button should belongs to a data block, so I made an empty new block inside the Content Canvas and made the button belongs to it.
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I created a tabbed form in Microsoft Access. The form has seven tab pages each tab page has a number of subforms. The problem is when I move from tab page to tab page the form opens in the middle of the page and requires scrolling up to see top of the form and the tabs of tabcontrol. From my search, I understand this can happen because the form is extra long. I do not want to resize the form as it has to be that long. I checked the tab order of each tab page and all controls are in the right order. My question is how can I force the focus to be on the top of the form when moving between tab pages?
I found a solution that worked for me. Putting a control at the top of the tab order list does not mean that you will get the focus at the top of the tab page. It seems that Access automatically put the focus on the last created control. What I have done is to create an unbound text box with width and height 0 - to be hidden - and I placed it at the top of my form inside each of the tab page. It is important to check that it is at the bottom of the tab order list in each page, job done!
I had the same problem and found an easy fix to it. I had 4 subforms on one tab page (2 at the top (order nr. 0 and 1) and 2 at the bottom (order nr. 2 and 3)). When moving between tabs and going back to my tab with all the subforms, Access just sets the focus in the middle of the page or, to be more precise, where subforms with order nr. 2,3 are.
After checking a million times the orders, I found this solution:
Select the subforms that are at the bottom (in my case the subforms with order nr. 2 and 3)
2.Go to properties > Other > change "In Order" to "No".
I have continuous forms made of a header section and a detail section. Controls in detail section are bound to a recordset, while the ones in the header are not bound.
At opening time, focus is made on the first (left) control of the detail section or, if the recordset is empty, first (left) control of the header section. In such a situation, and for forms that need an horizontal scrollbar, the scrollbar will be set to the right side of the form, and left-side info wil be hidden, confusing the user.
Any way to make sure that, in all case, my form will open with its left side visible?
Thanks
Usually to avoid focus discrepancies, I use a small transparent button that I just call btDeadFocus in the header -or the detail section- of my forms.
This invisible button doesn't actually do anything more than capturing the focus. I just make sure that this button is set it as the first control on the form using the tab order list.
The button also becomes useful in situations where the focus cannot be kept on a control. For instance a control that needs to be disabled. I just move it to the btDeadFocus instead.
I want a UI that is basically a document having souped-up paragraphs that are (a) editable and (b) each have a column of meta-data/widgets on their left. That is, I want a tree layout that looks like an HTML document, except:
to the left of each paragraph is a column of controls like buttons, state indicators, very short textbox fields (3 chars), and
if you click on a paragraph (or hit an edit button on the left) it morphs into a textarea you can edit; when you are done, you hit a done button on the left (probably the edit button morphed into a done button) and the textarea goes back to being a paragraph.
When you hit edit, some labels in the meta-data on the left should also morph into text areas, etc. and back again when you hit done. Also, I want to be able to hit a button and show only part of the paragraph (imagine a paragraph having a title and a body).
I'm sure I can cobble something together that does this if I hit it over the head with enough HTML tables and GWT Panels, but I'm trying to do this in as lightweight manner as possible, given that such documents of these things may be large, I want it to resize naturally in the browser, and since browsers already naturally lay out things that look like documents I should be able to use very vanilla HTML for most of it.
I've spent several days being frustrated with GWT Panels of various kinds. Ideas?
You should just be able to hide a Label and show a TextArea, and then switch back when you're done editing. Set whatever styles you need to on them - I think a Label comes out as a <div> and a TextArea comes out as a <textarea>. No panels required... just a <div> container to put these two widgets in.
This is kind of out there, but I have no idea what this type of control is even called, so I can't look up any examples on how to implement it.
The control has two text areas side by side with arrows in between them. If a user selects a value or multiple values in one text area and then clicks the arrow that points to the other text area, the selected values will jump over to the other text area and be removed from the initial text area.
What is this called?
There's no one control. Usually it's implemented with 2 <SELECT> list boxes, the arrows have javascript functions attached to take the selected values in the one listbox and move them to the other. Ie. delete from one box and add to the other.
Take a look at this example I found via Google:
http://blog.jeremymartin.name/2008/02/easy-multi-select-transfer-with-jquery.html
I have created a custom TitleWindow whcih i use as a popup. The contents of the popup are created dynamically depending on a selection a user makes from a datagrid.
My problem is, my datagrid is in another custom component whcih is toward the bottom of my page so when a user clicks one of the items the popup is displayed however with half of it out of sight at the bottom of the page.
Is there a way to position a popup so that it displays at the top of the page?
I know at least two things you can use to position a popup, though there might be more.
When you place a popup you can choose in which parent component to place the popup:
PopUpManager.createPopUp(this.parent, TitleWindowComponent);
In the component itself:
PopUpManager.centerPopUp(this);
I wanted a help tooltip type popup (with help text) to appear next to the icon that opened it. In the end I used move(x,y) to move the window where I wanted it. To get the coordinates to place it, use globalToLocal:
var globalX:Number = localToGlobal(new Point(myIcon.x, myIcon.y)).x;
var globalY:Number = localToGlobal(new Point(myIcon.x, myIcon.y)).y;
toolTip.move(globalX + myIcon.width, globalY);
That puts the window just to the right of the icon, myIcon.