Karen, Thank you for your kind words, and as always; I appreciate your Rbase (and fellow RBaser's) knowledge and support.
Also thanks for confirming the strange design mode "behaviors" are not entirely unique to my form! BEST Regards Lena From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 3:57 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: RBWin 7.6 - Controls on a form limit I also thought that response was a bit out of line. A few years ago at a conference I demonstrated a 4-tab form that I designed per client orders that had 473 data columns located, and (I just counted) 98 other fields (such as labels and static text). I was proud of that form! Form has never failed and the client loves it. So Lena is in good company, as I find I am also perhaps not as respected as I thought... But in any case, I took that huge form, added one more tab and started copying controls from one page to another. I had no problems whatsoever until I ran the form while in design mode. As soon as I did that, as Lena said, the attributes at the bottom of the form didn't update properly but I could get them by going to properties. And eventually I also got the "list out of bounds" error. None of that happened if I didn't run from the designer. So for me, not a show stopper. As long as the form worked (and it seemed to work fine in my tests), I wouldn't let it worry me. BTW I tested on 7.6 which is what that client uses, didn't think of trying it in 9.1 Karen In a message dated 6/30/2011 3:41:31 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: You are going to disrespect a person for asking a general question? Unfortunately, while we do our best to guide management and our users on the form layout, ultimately they have the final say on how they want their forms to look and run. Some environments do not allow for programmers to provide input into the design process. But I can assure you that Lena is a top notch programmer with an extensive career in programming. And should be greatly respected, regardless of what questions she might ask.
