Dinbandhu a écrit :
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?
I have seen this behaviour in the past, but I cant' remember why or how
it happened or whether I was able to reproduce it, or whether it was a
bug of the OOo version I was using at the time (the 2.0.x line had lots
of headache causing bugs like this). I must admit to actually saving
most of my forms outside of the ODB document, an old habit from the 1.1
version days :-)
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?
Yes, that would appear to be normal behaviour in my experience. The
default insert of the field control is just that, you have to tailor it
to your needs after insertion. This is where the wonders of the
automagic cease and the manual workload kicks in. You must right mouse
button click on the field to change its properties (size, font,
background, etc) as you would if you had just inserted a field control
onto a blank document. Currently the only way I could possibly think of
to do this automagically would be to devise some kind of macro that
might do the grunt work for you by changing all of the properties to a
predefined default of your choice. Alternatively, you could probably
muck around with the XML within the ODB file and do some search and
replace to obtain what you want, but there is certainly nothing
click'n'go that I'm aware of that will do that for you currently. It was
not in the philosophy of the original design of the Base module to make
something that you could just click, click, click and voilà, some nifty
form appears from thin air, unlike competing products which, it has to
be said, try to be all things to every flavor of db developer/user and
do not always succeed very well in doing so.
Alex
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