Alastair, I wish there were at least 36 hours in a day!
Very Best Regards, Razzak. At 11:12 PM 10/23/2002 +0100, Alastair Burr wrote:
Thanks, Razzak, I'll look forward to reading it as soon as you have the time. Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:08 PM Subject: Re: Problem with form - Razzak's Reply > > At 08:50 PM 10/23/2002 +0100, Alastair Burr wrote: > > >Razzak, please could you explain, perhaps in one of your excellent "from the > >edge" articles, what the preferred order is for all items on a form? > > > >For instance, should all text object come first, or should they follow the > >"logical" cursor sequence, or should they all come last? Or does it not > >matter for text objects? > > > >Should buttons and their ilk do the same sort of thing? > > > >How should fields and their associated variables be grouped? > > > >Should you skip from, say, page 2 to the last past before returning to page > >1? ie, always go "forward". > > > >It would be really nice to have a definitive document for this as there > >obviously seems to be some confusion and/or problems when it's not "right". > > > Alastair, > > Personally, I have always followed the logical tab order with "TO" Text > Objects > before their corresponding column/variable. The form header title always is > first. > > I believe, the problem can arise when you have everything working fine and > all of sudden you decided to locate a new column/variable or re-locate an > existing > column/variable along with Text Objects, etc., in middle of the tab > sequence and > then expect it to be in order without using the "Change Field Order..." > option along > with "Show Text Objects". > > And, I agree that it would be really nice to have a definitive document for > this. > > I do have the passion to design cool forms (everything forms ...) and I'll > make sure > to share anything I know of. And, I absolutely don't mind to share the > POWER and > FEATURES of The Glorious R:BASE 2000 (ver 6.5++) or The Magical R:BASE 7.0! > > Very Best Regards, > > Razzak. > > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
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