I have a form that has some textfields and combos with a vbox layout. These components are created dynamically after pressing one button. The tab order seems that is not working. The cursor doesn't go from one textfield to the next one by pressing the tab. What am i missing and the tab order is not working? In case the form is declared statically as view-controller, the tab order is working automatically.
You can set tab order via tabIndex property.
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I have a Tab Control element containing 2 tabs: Tab1 and Tab2. Tab2 contains a ListBox element whose RowSource queries the data that gets submitted in Tab1.
Say the user opens this form containing these 2 tabs. They are originally on Tab1. in the Form_Load event for Tab2, it queries the data it needs to populate its ListBox. Now they switch tabs to Tab1. They enter some data and submit a new record to the corresponding table (the same table that the Tab2 ListBox uses as its RowSource). When the user switches back to Tab2, they don't see this newly added record.
What I have done so far is that when the user clicks anywhere in the ListBox, it calls Requery, and then the record will show up. This isn't enough as it's not intuitive for the user to have to click on the listbox to update its contents.
I have tried putting this Requery code in a Form_Load, Form_Activate, GotFocus, but nothing works. I know you can detect the TabControl clicks, but how can I access the forms and the elements that they contain?
Any ideas on how to requery this listbox whenever the tab gains control?
If you want to add code for a specific tab on a tabcontrol, the most convenient way to do that is to write code in the TabCtl_Change event. That occurs when the tab control is changed. E.g.:
Private Sub MyTabCtl_Change()
If MyTabCtl.Pages(MyTabCtl.Value).Name = "Tab2" Then 'The tab control just changed to your page
'Requery that list box
End If
End Sub
Note that, if you're not using a tab control at all, but a navigation control (which it does sound like, tab controls don't necessarily have subforms on them, and don't have Form_Load events, forms do)
You're most likely looking for the On Activate trigger.
Then, in the code just use Form.Requery or Form.Recalc depending on which you're actually looking to do.
Alternatively, you could use the same control the user is using to submit records to trigger a requery. Although, that would require a specific Form to be called into focus.
I searched about tabs in VB6 over and over, but I couldn't find anyway. How I can replace buttons and other thing in which tab?
Private Sub TabStrip1_Click()
Here I found the answer. All objects in each tab must be in one frame and each frame must be for a special tab.
http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_use_tabstrip.html
Start a new project
Add a new form from availables templates: choose the Options window template
Now you have a form frmOptions which contains a TabStrip named tbsOptions, complete of code to manage the tabs using the Click event.
I have a MS Access form that is bound to a query in the database. I added a textbox and added a row source to a Hyperlink datafield in the query. When I open the form, it won't allow me to drop a file into the textbox.
Here's the deal. When I follow this EXACT same process on a new form, it works perfectly. That is, I open a blank form and I bind the form to some new query, let's say qryNewIdeas. Then on the blank form i add a textbox, let's say Text0. Then, when I select Text0, I go to the data tab - row source and choose the dropdown arrow to select the hyperlink field, lets say NewIdeasAddress. I click SAVE and open the form. It works PERFECTLY.
BUT, when I repeat this on an existing form (the one where I need the thing to actually work), it does nothing. It adds and changes the textbox to a hyperlink box (I note this because of the blue underlined word that appears in the box). But it won't allow me to drop files to this location.
I tried commenting out ALL of my VBA code to try to make sure that something wasn't hindering it (say in an OnLoad event) AND I've checked all of the form and control box properties and they seem to be the same in both the existing form and the test form.
I can't determine why it works on one form and not the other; Solution needed.
If you have access to "the data tab - row source ..", you are in design view.
When you later open the form, you are in form view, a completely different animal which specifically prohibits design changes.
It sounds like you will have to rethink your concept.
I am doing a signup form with a few steps, made with angular material tabs. I have 5 tabs each containing a few inputs that the user should fill in. I also have 2 buttons below the tabs, one to get to the next tab and one button to get to the previous tab. I want to disable the upcoming tabs and also disable the button that takes the user to the next tab until the user has filled in the the tab he is on properly. I want the user to be able to go back and change the information that is already filled in on the previous tabs, and when all the tabs are filled in properly a send button is shown. So, that's basic functions for a multi step signup form.
I have managed to do the basic functions for the buttons and the tabs with ng-disabled and ng-hide combined with changing the value on the variable tabNr in my controller, like hiding the previous-button on the first tab and hiding the next-button on the last tab, and that works fine.
When it comes to hide the next-button based on if the form is filled in its a bit more tricky. I am able to disable the next tab by validating the form on the previous tab like this: ng-disabled="!tab1Form.$valid", so that's hard coded and works fine.
The previous- and next-buttons, though, are the same for all tabs and that is the tricky part, so I can't just disable the button if a form isn't valid because the button does not know which tab that is active. I have tried to make a function in the controller but then the problem is that the valid-variable is just a thing in html and I cant evaluate it in the controller.. As far as I have tried and have understood.
So this is the next-button:
<md-button ng-click="FormCtrl.tabNext()" ng-disabled="FormCtrl.tabNr >= 5 || !tab{{FormCtrl.tabNr}}Form.$valid" ng-hide="FormCtrl.tabNr > 4">Next</md-button>
Each tab has this, with it's own number:
<form name="tab1Form" novalidate>
What I've tried is to change the tab, that should trigger the disable, by using angular:
ng-disabled="!tab{{FormCtrl.tabNr}}Form.$valid"
The browser seems to change the number, and it works for the first tab, but on the rest of the tabs it does not disable the button even though it should, like if the browser does not evaluate the variable properly. I hoped that it should work because I cant think of another way of doing it with these variables...
Does this way of using angular simply not work or am I doing anything wrong? Does anyone have a solution I could use?
In your controller
function Controller($scope){
var vm = this;
vm.form = $scope['tab' + anyNumber + 'Form'];
}
then in your html
ng-disabled="!FormCtrl.form.$valid"
I have transformed some fields on my data entry form using code so that the user needs to update them by clicking them with the mouse. Unfortunately, I do not understand how to remove them from the tab order field so that the user with the tab key toggles only through the fields which are not updated by mouse point and clicking.
You can adjust the Tab Stop property of the various controls. For details see
Remove a control from the tab order