On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 08:01 +0200, Alex Thurgood wrote: > Dinbandhu a écrit : > > Hi, > > I've been trying for the last 20 minutes, but I can't get it to work. > > When I go into the form design mode after opening the form, then there > > is an icon along the bottom called "add field". When I click on that, a > > small window opens in the middle of the screen, which is around 3 cm > > wide and 4 cm high. It is called "add field:". But the window is empty. > > Completely empty. You can't even put a cursor in it. Perhaps I am not > > clicking on the appropriate icon in the form design toolbar? > > > Aha !! Yes, the invisible field list gotcha. You have to select a field > on your form before you click on the icon that brings up the field list. > For some rather obscure programming design choice reason, the generation > of the field list requires that a field already linked to the table be > selected in order for that field list control to be populated - totally > counter intuitive I agree, but I guess this functionality is dependent > on some method. In my ideal world, you would have a tree list control > that would let you choose first the table you want the field from, and > then the field from that table by drilling down.
Thanks so much, yes now I'm getting there. Two residual points: 1. When I open the form and then from that window switch it to the design view of forms, all the controls (including the "add field" option), are grayed out. I tried this several times, and the same thing happens every time. The only way I am getting the icons to be functional in the forms design view, is if I open the forms design view directly from the main Base window, by right-clicking on the form and selecting "edit". Is this the way it is supposed to be? 2. By opening the forms design view in the above manner, I was able to populate the "add field" window, and then to select the field I wanted to add. But once I did that, the added field was sitting right in the middle of the forms design view window, physically overlapping and covering several other fields. I manually moved it to the end, where I wanted it to be. But all the parameters of its appearance are wrong: the font size and color of the field name, the size and color of the data entry window, and the distance of this field from the one above. Isn't there some way to set it to match all the other fields by default? Thanks, Swarup --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
