Gunnar, Glad to offer a reason to think about an alternative.
Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gunnar Ekblad Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:41 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form design question Ok I learned a new thing today even if I possible think a different background colour is better (more space saving in a region for ex and my experience space is always in short supply with all this monitors with different resolutions where I tend to go for the smallest by my users) But I will consider what you say Gunnar Ekblad Kontema IT AB Hästholmsvägen 32 131 30 Nacka Sweden -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Dennis McGrath Skickat: den 26 augusti 2010 17:34 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List Ämne: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form design question The button that looks like a drop down. Users are used to that. It says "gimmie a list" (Brooklyn slang) ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gunnar Ekblad Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:25 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form design question Dennis Then what is the: standard windows interface In this case? Gunnar Ekblad Kontema IT AB Hästholmsvägen 32 131 30 Nacka Sweden -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] För Dennis McGrath Skickat: den 26 augusti 2010 17:18 Till: RBASE-L Mailing List Ämne: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form design question Keeping things looking as much like the standard windows interface is always a good choice. Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:59 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form design question Dan: That's another good suggestion! Another friend of mine used to do this back in 6.5. Made a field look like a dropdown, but it would bring up a popup list, then we had to use a playback to get it into the other field. This is a good way to do it if you need to do some manipulations for the list that you can't handle in the regular Popup tab. Karen I put a push button next to the field with a down arrow icon which users are used to seeing for drop downs. I assign an eep to the button with the properties: property compid PMAUTO 'TRUE' property compid SET_FOCUS 'TRUE' Dan
