Re: GUI problems in Forms 4.5

From: Jomarlen <jomarlen_at_aol.com>
Date: 1997/10/31
Message-ID: <19971031000000.TAA06917_at_ladder02.news.aol.com>#1/1


>I have the following problems. any suggestions will be appreciated.
>
>1. I have a bunch of text items on my form. When certain text items
> have the focus, the I beam cursor is visible and in case of others
> it is not even though it has the focus and the user can edit it. I
> checked the property sheets of both - they are identical.
>

No suggestions for this one - sorry.

>2. Certain text items should not be navigable. I have set the Navigable
> property to FALSE. I want to set the Mouse Navigate property to False
> too but there is no such property for Text Items. How do I achieve this?
>

Make the items display items instead of text items. The only limitation here is that display items cannot have a format mask.

>3. I have hardcoded the pathnames in my Callform functions and for
> attaching the menus to the forms. Is there a way not to do this?
>

Make the directory in which the forms etc. are stored the default directory, or include it in FORMS45_PATH

>Thank you.
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Received on Fri Oct 31 1997 - 00:00:00 CET

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