On 09/09/10 11:35, Harold Fuchs wrote: .....
Thanks for the thought and your'e not completely off the mark. I've played with forms for this but as far as I can see they offer no advantages over the normal frame& text box approach. A form offers two facilities which seem useful in my case: the Label and the Text Box. Text boxes can have "default text" but that gets overwritten when the use enters text into tyhe box - not what I want. Labels are uneditable but even though the box containing the label is quite big, the user *cannot* type into it. So then I tried a label inside a text box. This works but it's just as fiddly to get the positioning right as it is user Brian's two-frame approach. In fact it's sort of worse because the label actually gets overwritten as the user types in that part of the text box. Positioning a label above or to the left of a text box doesn't give the effect I want.
Perhaps a case for some pragmatism, and changing the design requirements? Resizing things can give a quite small label above top-left (say) of the text entry box.
Frankly I think this whole thing is a mess so I'm going to mull over it for a while.
About as clear as mud and twice as intuitive :-| Do let us know what you come up with - it's never just one person with a given problem!
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