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Buttons or Text Hyperlinks? What to do...
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01464331
Message ID:
01464551
Views:
80
>>>>>I'm designing a new VFP 9 system that will work heavily with web pages. I have always used command buttons on my forms in the past but I'm thinking of using labels with a style of blue and underline on the mouse over where the click event calls whatever. In other words it would look and work like the link on a web page. I created the label class and it works just fine. The question is should I use it or the old command buttons.
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>>>>>This is a matter of style and everyone will have different opinions, none of which will be right or wrong. I'm just looking for peoples thoughts. Thanks.
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>>>>There is also new Hyperlink class in VFP9 you may try. I think label can give you a better visual clue also.
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>>>I created my own hyperlink class and it works great. My question is intended to gather peoples opinions about links verses command buttons.
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>>You'll have a hard time balancing the forms and such. Could be appropriate in certain places where you wanted to draw less attention to a feature and/or reduce the amount of space it was taking up - buttons doing the heavy lifting and hyperlinks relegated to bottom-left or upper-right corners of the screens with perhaps a nice image next to it. But to go with nothing but hyperlinks in a data centric desktop application? I think it would look cheesy, but I'm willing to be proved wrong with a screen shot. <g>
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>Craig, thanks for the input. After talking with some friends and relatives to get a "man on the street opinion" and now your input I will stick with the buttons.
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>Thanks and see you in October at SW FOX.

Sorry, IE mixed up :-(
Best Regards
-Tom

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