In response to Alexander's request that problems be better delineated:
On 06/22/2011 06:29 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
Yes indeed. But then I started over, so I could have a subform. At
that point, using the form wizard was the only way I could see to get
one. Still is, dammit.
#1: No way to add subform to existing main form, using any control
creation icon, menu item, or whatever. One must recreate main form and
THIS time take the subform creation option.
But none of the drop down boxes work on "Containers > Items" Also
sometimes the record shows 1 of 4 or 1 of 3 then back to 1 of 2 ( it
was random) I could not get this to repeat. - you are absolutely
right about this faulty form - I just think that it has become
corrupted - IMHO delete and start again.
#2. Actually, no. It's not corrupted. It's dead on arrival. The problem
is easy to recreate: Use a view or query as source table for main form,
and/or subform, and/or one or more of the list boxes. I'm doing all
three in this flawed form. I don't know what happens if a view is ONLY
used, say, in the subform, or a list box, only. I do know that doing all
three broke the form, and did again tonight when I tried to recreate
this mess. Totally using raw tables fixed all problems.
Corrupted? Good thought. I wonder why I didn't think of that? It sure
looks like that could be the problem. I haven't yet knowingly had that
problem with Base, so I didn't think of it.
On opening either form, the icons on the left (on my system) were
greyed out, so I could not enter the design / edit mode - which may
be a problem with my system - and has thus so far prevented me from
designing a form something similar for myself. I realise now (thanks
to you - with a form to play with) that you must close the form,
return to the front page, right click the form and enter it in Edit
mode.
Yes. Opening it first, there is no way to go to edit mode. If you
think you might want to edit the form, after opening it, you must
first open it in edit mode, then switch to execute mode. You can then
switch back to edit mode if desired.
Not a bug. A feature. A bad one, at that. One should be able to access
edit mode from any form interface, as in MS Access. But this is hardly a
show-stopper.
Hope this helps!
Tom Cloyd, MS MA
[email protected]
(435) 272-3332
St. George/Cedar City, Utah
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