MS Rant - TabIndexes
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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 23 May 2010 19:28 "David C. Holley" <David.C.Holley> wrote: >From what I can tell, when you're working with multiple pages using the tab >key will tab from control to control and change pages if the next control is >on another page. I want the user to remain on the same page and only move >via a NEXT or PREVIOUS button. As with Tom I'm not sure what you mean by page. Do you mean page on a tab control? Where there are controls such as text boxes, combo boxes and subforms on each page. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Tom van Stiphout on 23 May 2010 19:41 On Sun, 23 May 2010 19:23:39 -0400, "David C. Holley" <David.C.Holley> wrote: Oh, THOSE pages :-) If you want to tab around within one page, consider this trick: the last control of a Page could have a LostFocus event that sets focus to the first control of the page. Personally I would write a wizard using the Tab control: develop multiple tabs which are the pages, and at the last moment turn off the display of the tabs. -Tom. Microsoft Access MVP >I'm building a wizard. By 'pages' I'm referring to the sections of the form >that are separated from each other using page break control. > >"Tom van Stiphout" <tom7744.no.spam(a)cox.net> wrote in message >news:c1bjv55u6se3gilrrdllcm8ga9julfbkcs(a)4ax.com... >> On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:01:08 -0400, "David C. Holley" <David.C.Holley> >> wrote: >> >> I'm with Tony: what exactly do you mean by "pages"? >> There may be a solution, but we need to first be on the same page :-) >> >> -Tom. >> Microsoft Access MVP >> >> >>>From what I can tell, when you're working with multiple pages using the >>>tab >>>key will tab from control to control and change pages if the next control >>>is >>>on another page. I want the user to remain on the same page and only move >>>via a NEXT or PREVIOUS button. >>> >>>"Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote in message >>>news:k03jv5hpkk0d22ri8209jmn6j9469dvrc7(a)4ax.com... >>>> "David C. Holley" <David.C.Holley> wrote: >>>> >>>>>At what point in time is MS going to alter Forms so that controls only >>>>>tab >>>>>between controls on the same page? Building a wizard where you want the >>>>>user >>>>>to be able to TAB, just like the rest of every application out there, >>>>>would >>>>>be so much easier. >>>> >>>> I don't quite understand the problem here. Using the tab key skips >>>> from page to page? >>>> >>>> Tony >>>> -- >>>> Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP >>>> Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm >>>> Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ >>>> For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files >>>> updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ >>>> Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ >>> >
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 23 May 2010 21:40 "David C. Holley" <David.C.Holley> wrote: >I'm building a wizard. By 'pages' I'm referring to the sections of the form >that are separated from each other using page break control. Ahhhh. What I did in VB6 was to put the controls into a frame. When the form is displayed in user view, rather than design view, I resized the form programmatically to be just large enough for the frame and the back next buttons, etc. Then I moved the frame into and out of view as they want from page to page clicking on the next You can see how this works by downloading the Auto FE Updater utility, see my sig below, and either running the wizard or creating a configuration file and then updating the config file. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 23 May 2010 21:41 Tom van Stiphout <tom7744.no.spam(a)cox.net> wrote: >Personally I would write a wizard using the Tab control: develop >multiple tabs which are the pages, and at the last moment turn off the >display of the tabs. Trouble is I don't know if you can turn off the tabs visibility but leave the controls in the tabs visible. OTOH I never tried it. <smile> Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Arvin Meyer [MVP] on 23 May 2010 22:06
"Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote in message news:h8mjv5lqgo8aifl87lgehet9ffll8j4eqv(a)4ax.com... > Trouble is I don't know if you can turn off the tabs visibility but > leave the controls in the tabs visible. OTOH I never tried it. > <smile> No. When you hide a tab, all the controls on that tab are no longer visible. Tou can't set focus to them, but you can use them in calculations, etc. -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.accessmvp.com http://www.mvps.org/access Co-author: "Access 2010 Solutions", published by Wiley |