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Pageframe vs. scrollable form
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From
16/02/2004 15:31:59
Dorin Vasilescu
ALL Trans Romania
Arad, Romania
 
 
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16/02/2004 08:57:21
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00877555
Message ID:
00877756
Views:
21
>I did an experiment when scrollable forms first came out. Using the same data, I created one form with a pageframe and another scrollable. The users preferred the pageframe by a large margin.
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>If I need to display child data with a parent, I put the child data in a readonly grid. The user then can double-click on any row to edit. There are buttons for add, which brings up a modal form (the same form that is used for edit) and delete, which simply deletes the current child record. Very clean and easy to use.
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Hi
Thanks for the information, this is exactly what I want to do regarding child data. What I didn't knew was what actually users preference are for applications (first thought is that scrolling forms are cool, somehow similar with a IE interface).
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