Alan,

>I'd be interested to know what the FoxFolk out there think of navigation controls. I've been using them for years now, either as toolbar buttons or on the form itself, and they have corresponding Next, Previous, Top and Bottom methods within the frameworks I have used.

>But who actually uses them? I've recently done a (very small) survey amongst a few database uses I know and very few actually use them. Most users pick a required record via a grid and/or criteria entered to produce a SQL subset. Usually they can see all they want to in the grid and it's no problem to double-click on a row to display full details relating to that particular record.

>I've read that navigation controls are out-of-favour for client-server applications, where as few records as possible should be selected.

I'm sure that today there are other record selecting mechanisms that are more popular and mostly easier to use, but I still think that they're usefull in some circumstances. Since they're in my framework, it does not bother me, and I'm quite sure that the users don't regard them as irritating.

Certainly in a few circumstance where the record selection grid (or something else) is not directly visible (because it is on another page, or even a seperate form) the navigation buttons are usefull.

Walter,