OK I still need to learn how to report bugs, etc., and I will. But
meanwhile my desperate rush to get some work done with Base presses my
forward.
This apparent bug made me crazy for a while this evening until I found a
workaround.
The problem: Designing a form, the issue of tab order arises if you use
the form wizard and start moving text fields around, or if you don't use
the form wizard. Tab order may be explicitly addressed in the properties
dialog (double clicking a control is one way to get it), OR in the Tab
Order dialog. But changes made are not evidenced, at all, when switching
from edit mode to execution mode. Nothing I tried worked. I simply got
an apparently random tab order, which is a data entry show stopper!
The solution: After making an tab order change, close out the form
designer. Open the form directly into execution mode. The new tab order
will be evidenced. The problem with this is that if you have more form
editing to do, you must close the form out and return to edit mode, as
there is no way to get from an initial execution of a form into design mode.
As far as I'm concerned this is definitely a bug (any disagreement?).
Two bugs, actually - the second being the inability to get from initial
execution of a form to design mode without first closing out the form.
I'm just glad I found a way to get the tab order I must have to make the
form usable.
Tom Cloyd [email protected] (435) 272-3332
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