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Hacking Form Wizard
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From
25/07/1998 16:50:48
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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23/07/1998 16:24:38
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00120694
Message ID:
00121393
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11
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>Microsoft does not currently ship source code for the Wizards. You will get the Wizard source code beginning with VFP 6.0. FYI, Win9.x standards say that labels should be left aligned.

An additional way to achieve whatever the originator of this thread needed is to write a builder which would perform modifications on the labels. Not too hard to achieve, really.

However, regarding guidelines for GUI, I don't feel we'd have to be that much compliant to them. Sometimes a form needs to have many objects with lots of labels - if there are two or more controls in the same row, with label to the left of each of them, the left aligned labels are visually closer to the previous control (one to the left) than to the control they refer to. I always bear in mind that M$'s GUI guidelines are designed for forms you can see in Control Panel and such, where you never have too many controls on one page, and they're never data-intensive. In real life, however, things may differ.

Yes, I know that having a form with 20-30-more controls may be considered bad design, but sometimes it's a must - depending on user's specs. I've already made some very complicated forms, and the users are happy with them. They like to have it all in one place.

back to same old

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