I was kind of backing into an idea that worked very well for me. I build all my pages and forms on containers, nothing else directly on the form or page itself. This made it very easy for me to take a tabbed page & throw it onto an independent form for users to look at when the need to page over to another routine.
-Lew Schwartz On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Dan Covill <dcov...@san.rr.com> wrote: > On 07/02/13 11:26 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > >> >> HOWEVER, I do not design my forms in such a way that that is >> likely to be an issue. The validation that the user would fall afoul of >> is *just for that control*. I often have form labels stating the valid >> input values where they are not obvious, and my error messages are the >> same way. >> >> > Good point, Gene. Where I have a validation routine that will be used for > multiple controls, e.g., testing that a value is within limits, that > routine is a method of a business object, and the code in the Valid method > calls it with parameters: > Result = oBox.ValidLength() > or Result = oBox.ValidWidth() > > That way, if the rules change you don't do it in the form. > > Dan > > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com > Subscription Maintenance: > http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/**listinfo/profox<http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox> > OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/** > listinfo/profoxtech <http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech> > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/**search/profox<http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox> > This message: http://leafe.com/archives/**byMID/profox/51D321A7.4080005@** > san.rr.com<http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/51d321a7.4080...@san.rr.com> > > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of > the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the > obvious. > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAFuU78cdd-X0TOcg6Rmo7jWnLObyfkm=th7ay8pz23vdp+w...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
