Oh...it's worse than I thought: the changed tab order simply will NOT
appear if one gets to the form from the form designer; it can only ever
be seen when opening the form directly. This might be a serious
impediment to form development, in some cases... ~t.
On 07/01/2011 03:56 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
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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