It looks to me your problem can be better solved using a TabControl. With it
you could create pages of controls. If you don't want the tabs to appear, you
can change the style to buttons or even none (which will look like you are
doing now)
Have a look and let us know
Mauricio Silva
"Daniel" wrote:
> Maybe I should explain myself a bit more to give you the full picture. I
> have been asked to add more controls to an already filled form. Of course
> they do not want me to increase the size of the form (they do not want to use
> scroll bars....). Anyways, back to the issue at hand, the only solution that
> I could come up with was to supperpose several control and try and control
> their visibility (hence my problem).
>
> In this specific case, I have had to superpose a commentary field over top
> of custom navigation buttons and also added a Forecast control where the user
> will input time estimates. Basically what I am trying to acheive, maybe I'm
> going about it the wrong way?, is that when and only when the user sets the
> focus on the Forecast control I want the comments control to become visible
> and the navigation buttons disappear. Now for my problem, when the user
> choses to go elsewhere, leave the Forecast control, if they set the focus on
> the comments control it remains dominant but if they set the focus on any
> other control the navigation button should become dominant instead.
>
> I'm open to any other idea on how to resolve this little problem,
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> "lwells" wrote:
>
> > What do you mean goes elsewhere? If you mean going to a new form or closing
> > the existing form, set your function to the forms OnExit Event. This way the
> > forms fields will remain visible until you close the form. Will this help?
> >
> > "Daniel" wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > In a form, I have set it up so that when the user sets the focus on a
> > > specific field it displays certain other fields and then when it loses the
> > > focus it hide those same field. My problem is that although I want to hide
> > > these fields when the user goes elsewhere, I want them to remain visible
> > > should the user select on of them How can I acheive this?
> > >
> > > This is the function that is called by the field's lostfocus event:
> > > Function HideForecastComments()
> > >
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Label63].Visible = False
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Forecast Comments].Visible = False
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Create New Record].Visible = True
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Goto record 1].Visible = True
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Go Back 1].Visible = True
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Go fwd 1].Visible = True
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![Goto Last].Visible = True
> > > Forms![Drawing Management Frm]![Drawing History Frm
> > > sous-formulaire].Form![RecordCounter].Visible = True
> > >
> > > End Function
> > >
> > > How can I detect where/what the user clicks? Basically, I would like it to
> > > change the visibility as per the above function except when the user selects
> > > control "Forecast Comments".
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > >
> > >
> > >
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