On 2008 Sep 2, at 7:27, Ron wrote:
I have been trying to set up a tab control, with portal
representing child records on each of the tabs.
I am having a lot of problems, with re-sizing, controls
disappearing (something to do with front / forward vs back /
backward?).
I obviously lack some understanding of how these two work together.
Can anyone provide a little clarification here?
I had most of my problems when I constructed the portal out in free
space (completely outside the tabbed index card area), then tried
dragging the whole schmear atop the frontmost card. As long as I was
careful to drag ALL of the relevant stuff COMPLETELY within the
boundaries of the card, I was OK. But if I left something dangling
off the edge, even a little bit, it was interpreted as not being on
the card at all, even tho all its brothers and sisters had made the
journey safely.
I do recommend this approach, BTW: constructing your portals out
where you can see exactly what's beneath them, then dragging the
whole shebang onto the card. Just be careful when you do it. If the
portal is too big to fit on the card (something you should be able to
ascertain in advance by comparing the readings in the "Object Info"
inspector), drag it back off and enlarge the card before trying again.
Incidentally, if you think you're having problems with tab controls,
you should see what one of these things looks like if you build it in
FMP 9 and try to open it in FMP 7. Yowzah! At least it prompted my
client to upgrade.
As long as we're on this subject, does anyone have any advice about
how to explain the concept of "tab" to an end user when FMP uses the
same term for 2 different kinds of thing? I'm frankly stumped for
synonyms. "Index card" is about the best I've been able to come up
with. But, when I drop one of my periodic missives into FMI's
suggestion box about their atrocious tab-numbering interface, I now
have to take the extra time to explain which kind of tab I mean.
Ambiguity is the enemy of understanding.
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