I am not aware of a nice dialog to do this, I have always modified the
tab property of each control. Of course, after the control property
dialog is open, you can click on any control to display the properties
for that control.
Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Johnny,
Thanks for your explanation.
It is clear and the same as I understoud it the first time as well.
Because I know my way in the IDE of course.
However, what you have been dreaming of ( ;-) ) I've never seen that
in SOBasic's IDE. Would like to know it.
Could it have been little trip to someone elses program??
Kind regards,
Cor
Johnny Andersson wrote:
Hi again...
No, that crystal ball of yours might need some modification...
What I am talking about is the following (trying to explain in a
different way this time):
1. Open a Spreadsheet (not that it need to be a spreadsheet, but that
is what I am working with in this case).
2. Tools -> Macros -> Macro...
3. Administrate
4. New Dialog -> Name it -> OK
5. Select the dialog you just created and then press Edit.
6. Then I am not so sure, because I run the Swedish version, but the
third button of the lower tool bar is named "Kontrollfält" in
Swedish. I would guess that the English version says "Controllers",
"Control elements" or something like that. Anyway, you long click on
it and a tool bar with a lot of control elements appear.
7. Create a few different control elements. Just click on one of them
on the tool bar and then draw it on the pre defined empty dialog
box. Let's say that you create 4 (four) different control elements.
8. Now, if you double click one control element, you can see a lot
of information about it which you can edit. You can also right click
and then select Properties.
9. One of the fields is the one I was talking about. "Ordningsföljd"
in Swedish, whatever that is in English... It is about the tabulator
sequence anyway. It seems to be located right under the "Tab stop"
field, I hope the location of it is the same in the English version.
However, what this thing do is, that when you finished your dialog
box and it's working, you can move the focus from one control
element to another with your TAB key, so for every control element
you should set a number which tells the dialog how to change focus
when the TAB key is pressed. If we have fout different control
elements, they are numbered from 0 to 3. 0 is accessed first, then 1
and so on. If I look at the properties for one control element and
find it to be 3, and I might want it to be 2, I just change it from
3 to 2. This also means (I think) that the control element which was
2 before the change was done, now is 3, so that works rather
smoothly. We won't have two control elements with the same number.
One way to get it right is to create the control elements in the
same order as the wanted tabulator sequence, but nobody is perfect
and perharps you will add a control element later and you don't want
it to be the last one in the chain.
10. Of course it's possible to do what I just described, just double
click a control element, then change its order to the appropriate
value, but this makes it easy to overlook things if there are many
control elements and it could take some time to get it right.
11. Now to my point. When I was fooling around with this, I had this
dialog (I called it a window before, maybe that was misleading quite
a lot, sorry for the fact that my native language is not English),
and I can't really remember how I brought it up. That's actually
what I am asking here... Anyway, what it did was what I described
last time. All the control elements, which I created earlier, were
in a list and I could select one of them and move it up or down.
Moving it up means that the sequence order number gets lower, so one
step upwards means that if it was 3 it will become 2 and the old 2
will become 3. Just like we all would expect. Now I don't really
remember if I could drag them up and down in the list with "drag &
drop" with my mouse or if there was up and down buttons to click,
but that really doesn't matter. It was very convenient and it was
easy to see what was going on.
So where is this dialog to be found? It couldn't have been a dream,
could it??? If it was I think I am going to file it as a suggestion
for a "new feature"...
Johnny
Doug Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev den Tue, 22 Mar 2005
19:43:56 -0700:
Johnny Andersson wrote:
Hi!
A few days ago I was playing around with the dialog editor,
creating buttons and other control elements. When I studied the
properties of the different stuff, I noticed that I could change
the tabulator sequence. I found a very convenient way to change
the sequence by opening a special window designed to do this. In
that window all control elements are listed and I could just drag
them up and down to achieve the sequence I wanted, or was there
"move up" and "move down" buttons? I can't remember exactly.
Now to my "problem":
Now I am not "playing around" with it anymore, so I am doing
stuff which I am actulally going to use later. So when I tried to
find this convenient window, to easily change the tabulator
sequence, I couldn't find it anywhere and I couldn't find any
information about it in the help either. Maybe I just dreamt
about the whole thing? Or maybe not...
Anyone who knows what I am talking about?
It sounds as if you are describing customizing the toolbars.
If that's the case, then all that remains is to guess which version
of OOo you are using. My crystal ball says 2.0 beta.
If that is true, then you want to click on the dropdown icon at the
extreme right of either the Standard toolbar (the one immediately
below the Menu, or the Formatting toolbar which appears just below
the standard toolbar in a default configuration.
After clicking on the icon you will see a context menu. My crystal
ball says you are describing the the "Customize Toolbar..." entry.
Of course, there is always the possibility that I misread the signs
and you are actually using OOo 1.1.4. In that case, right click in
the desired toolbar and select Customize Toolbar from the context
menu.
Finally, if you aren't describing the toolbars, then when you
respond with the actual product information, perhaps you will
decode what you mean by "tabulator".
Doug
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