I have a Microsoft Access form which I use for entering client information:
First name
Last name
etc..
My problem is when I tab away from the Access Form to view the information which needs to be entered, the focus is lost in access. I need to click the form with the mouse to regain the focus.
This is very annoying!
Any help here?
AS far as I know, the focus of an access object is lost when you clic anything outside the object... that includes forms.
I can suggest you two ways of tacling this:
Use a control (combo box or list box) inside your form, so you can view the data you need.
Use a "pop up" form: you can create a form with the data you need, and a button inside your main form that opens this "pop up" form. You can specify in VBA if you want your form to open as a pop-up... if I remeber correctly, is something like this:
...
docmd.openform("frmYourForm",,,acDialog)
...
Hope this helps you
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Here's my situation; I have a form (sub-form) inside another form which contains my navigation header
When the form is opened, access scrolls down to the second form (the upper left corner starts with the sub-form and to do this it goes down pass the form with the navigation header), call me a perfectionnist, but it's kinda annoying having to always scroll up when I want to navigate out of this form and into another. Is there anyway I can get access to open starting from the first form? Thanks!
There are a couple of options you can do to have Access open a form when the application opens:
AutoExec Macro:
- This is my preferred approach. The AutoExec macro will run automatically when the application is opened. From there, you can set a form open event within the macro or call a VBA script
Database Properties:
- A bit more out of the way, but under File > Options > Current Database > Display Form: You can assign the form you want the application to open.
I know this question has been ask thousands of time, but I couldn't find a direct answer for this problem.
I am a programmer, but I never bothered learning VBA since this is only a small project I am doing on the side. I would prefer only using macro's.
I currently have a parent form inside a navigation menu, which has a datasheet table which display all the information about all the customers.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/d3TdM.png
In this parent form, I have a button to allow the user to add a new customer which opens a pop up form.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/RDSvq.png
I want the save button in this pop up form to update the parent form onClose. I know the record is working since if I switch off to a different tab and come back to it. I can see the new record added to the table.
Put this on the form frm_addNewCustomer on close event
Private Sub Form_Close()
[Forms]![TheFormYouWantUpdated].Refresh
End Sub
I am new in Microsoft Access. What i want is to switch between forms in subform panel depending upon the user selects from drop down list. Attach file contains what i want
I google alot but didnt find any help. Thank you for your help.
Here is screen shot. but I am confused in finding control of subform.
Forms("frmMain").Form.subFormControl.SourceObject = "SubForm_2_A"
..should be all you need.
subFormControl is the name of the subform-container-control that contains Subform2.
frmMain is the name of the parent form, not labelled in your picture (actually, you might not have to put subform1 in a subform really, its content could be on the parent form).
EDIT:
The red frame marks a subform. Click on -1- to make sure the main form has the focus. Then click once on -2- and the control is selected, and its properties show up in the properties box on the right.
Note that you find the "source object" in the data page and the name of the control in the "other" page. Access makes the name (of the control) the same as the form, which is really not such a bright idea and rather confusing.
I am trying to develop a quiz application using LWUIT resource editor and am having great difficulty.
I have created two Forms 'GUI1' and 'GUI2' .
GUI1 displays the following:
A question(in the form of a TextField)
5 RadioButtons belonging to the same group
A Button which says 'OK'
GUI2 displays the following:
A TextField
A Button to go back to GUI1
Now the problem is:
Initially GUI1 is displayed. When the user chooses a RadioButton , I wish to know which RadioButton was selected. If that RadioButton was indeed the correct answer, then when the user clicks on the 'OK' Button on GUI1, I wish to display the text 'correct' in the TextField on GUI2 and then display the GUI2.
If the user chose the wrong answer, then I wish to display the text "Wrong" in the TextField on GUI2 and then display the GUI2.
How can this be done with resource editor? I am very foxed. Please help.
I wish to refer to the TextField on GUI2 when I am currently on GUI1. How can this be done with resource editor? Writing a manual code for all this would be very time consuming.
Ok I will try to explain the best I can.
When you design the first Form GUI1 the five RadioButtons must be in the same group. I don't know how to do that in the resource editor (I think there is a field called ButtonGroup in the RadioButton, but I can't remeber). What I would do is take the five RadioButton by code in the before method of GUI1 and add them to a ButtonGroup element.
With ButtonGroup you can know which element is selected using ButtonGroup.setSelectedIndex(). When you press the Button take this value and act as appropriate to the situation.
If you don't understand anything please tell me and I will try to help you.
Is not a hard thing to do. There must be a way to do it with the Resoruce editor but at the moment I don´t know how.
As Shai mentioned, the best thing to do is to use listeners to set the "state" of the buttons on clicking them and when you move to the next form you just retrieve the state of the previous text field.
Manual code may actually be faster for you, do most of the UI in the resource editor and transfer to a form that is written manually. That way you have full control over your objects and transfer back into the GUI builder form when needed.
I'm new here as I am programming with Visual C# Express 2010.
Thats the case:
I have the first form, it contains labels, buttons, textboxes etc. I want one of these buttons to change all the aspects of this first form in order to create a second one.
An example of what I want is an ordinary installer program. It has one form ( I think ). And we have "next" button. Clicking on it, the whole form structure will change.
PS: Im not making an installer program.
Thank you!
It might be easier simply to develop a new form, and have the button launch an instance of that new form.
That said, you can programatically change aspect of GUI elements by using the appropriate properties.
For example, suppose you have a label lblStatus somewhere on the form. You can change its location and text with the following lines:
lblStatus.Location = new Point(20, 0);
lblStatus.Text = "Updated Status";
Hopefully this is helpful to get you on the right track.
You could do multiple things:
Use tab pages for each page of things that you want. Add a button outside of the tabs that will change to the next one.
Add a button and a panel on the form. Each page of the form is a different UserControl. When you click the button, fill the panel with a new instance of the UserControl that you want.
Do something like this: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/DesignTimeWizard.aspx
Or this: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/c2c412fd-bd28-4e3b-9c20-4dc381ac5199