Is there any way to arrange the controls in the userform using only arrowkeys (not dragging) ?
The Designer does not seem to support this and the form does not seem to capture Arrow Keys as key press events.
I have tried hacking this together with number keys but it will not keep the values of where the element was placed and does not work inside any control that actually accepts input.
So I think the answer is No you cannot use the arrow keys to move controls.
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I have a worksheet in Excel 2010 that is protected and used as a form for user-fillable values. The form contains 80 cells to be filled in and two radio button form controls to be selected. The form consists of two pages on the worksheet that are placed side by side horizontally (horizontally is a better user experience than vertically in this situation).
To get tabbing to go through the cells on the first page and then on the second page in the desired order, I used the solution on page 4 of the thread at "http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-excel/establishing-enter-order-on-a-protected-sheet/e7a223f3-2dae-4c7b-a37f-1819c68be5dc". This works excellently for regular cells.
The problem is how can I also tab to the radio buttons, which are located about a third of the way through the desired tab sequence? Unfortunately, it's not as easy as just adding the radio button names to the TabOrder array mentioned in the thread.
I've found various threads talking about tabbing between controls, but nothing that solves tabbing from regular cells to form controls, between the form controls, and then back to regular cells.
I'm relatively new to Excel VBA programming and could really use your help. :-)
Thanks!
Don
I can't add a comment, so I have to put this in the answer section even though it is not really an answer: Not sure if this is still an issue for you, but are you using Option Buttons or a Group Box. And are you using Form Controls or ActiveX.
The only thing that I have found that may help is to tab to the group itself, then use the arrow keys: "When you tab to the group, you can use the arrow keys to select the next/previous option." and "2. You can set an accelerator key on each one by adding an ampersand (&) before one letter in the label. For example, if the label's caption is "&Next", it will appear as "Next", and Alt-N will be the keystroke that selects that option. Be careful not to choose a keystroke that opens a menu -- for example, don't pick F, because Alt-F almost alway opens the File menu."
From: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/microsoft-access/557082-how-idiotic-no-way-tab-stop-option-button-within-group.html
Is this possible to do or are you only allowed to .focus one textbox on each form? I'm looking to highlight more than one textbox at one time if data is empty.
Only one control can have the focus every time (and thus what you request is not possible). In any case, note that the focus is meant for actions (not for visuals) and that only one control can perform actions every time in the GUI thread (e.g., text written in a TextBox or Button being clicked). On the other hand, you might provoke situations similar-enough to various controls getting the focus simultaneously (e.g., text written in various textboxes, coordinated via TextChanged Events: the actions are not performed simultaneously but the user will not realise about it).
If your intention is just highlighting the given control, you shouldn't rely on the focus. The focused control does get somehow highlighted, although this visual effect is not too relevant and, some times, not even perceptible. The best thing you can do is provoking the highlighting effect "manually". For example: Panel surrounding the TextBox, whose dimensions/visibility are affected; or just simply changing the BackColor property of the TextBox.
How do I create a Control to input email addresses, similar to how capturing tags on stackoverflow works?
I am using C# and Xaml.
You will need:
TextBox(to show input area where you can type)
Popup(to show suggestions below TextBox like StackOveflow does)
ItemsControl(it goes into Popup, so you can just have collection of items and they will be displayed, note that ItemsPanel should be probably GridView)
Then you will need custom Button, that will be overlaid top of TextBox once tag has been added. You need to calculate how big is the button(width) and fill TextBox with empty spaces, to advance cursor further.
Also you need to control what keys are being pressed.
The effect you are after is probably that you recognize complete e-mail addresses, and render them in a custom way. I would do this by removing the completed addresses from the textbox, and wrap them in a skinned label (or maybe a custom control with a delete button).
The most straightforward way is to implement the textbox as a DockPanel with a border, suggesting that it is a text box. On the left side of your DockPanel, you have a StackPanel where you stack the completed address controls left-to-right. Then add a textbox with DockStyle=Fill to fill up the remainder of the DockPanel. Once you detect an email address is entered, you remove the characters from the textbox and add a matching control to the StackPanel.
There is probably a way to change the textbox contents without losing focus, otherwise you need to fix this though code.
Good luck!
I am currently implementing drag and drop using the DataGrid provided in the Silverlight SDK and I want the user to be, easily, able to drag multiple items to another list.
The grid's selection gets updated on the MouseDown event so the only way the user have to drag multiple items is to press Shift while begining the drag operation. This is not really obvious and, for me, the natural way whould have been to just click the selected block of rows and drag them. To do so, the selection needs to be updated on the MouseUp event.
I've tried to derive from the DataGrid to inject my custom DataGridRows but the DataGrid doesn't expose a way to replace the type of rows it creates.
Anyone have a solution or ideas for this?
Thank you,
Jacques.
Yes, it's unfortunate that the selection is updated on mousedown. You will need to perform some work in the mousedown event to work around this. This codeproject article should help:
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/338594/Drag-drop-multiple-selected-rows-of-datagridview-w
Ok so this maybe a simple/silly question but I don't know so here goes:
In access let's say I want to have a frame control, so I click the option group button and add it to the desgin surface. However, I am not wanting to use this as a option group with radio button selection, instead I would like to add text boxes instead the frame, so that when I reference the frame, it references every control instead of it, hence the text boxes, cbo boxes, etc.....just as it would if they were radio option selections.
So can you do this?
I want whatever controls I add inside the frame to be easily referenced (i.e. make all controls visible just by using frameExample.visible = true) so that I can build my own tab control groupings.....
can this be done?
Thanks!
EDIT:
What I am trying to accomplish is having a form that includes a collection of controls (input controls - cbo boxes, text boxes, etc), that serve as the Main record information. These are saved to a table via an INSERT statement on button_click because this form is unbound.
Next I have 8 categories that are relative per each main record (and data that goes along with it). Each of these categories could have a sub form area and a button click that bring it's relative form into the sub form area. These sub forms would be unbound as well as I would just save data via SQL statement. So i know I could accomplish this by running the insert statement from the parent form, on the main collection control's data that would create the KeyID number, then run a SQL statement that would turn around and load that KeyID number right back onto the page in a hidden text box.
Then when I click one of the sub forms and load its relative collection of controls, I could then save that data along with KeyID for each of these sub-forms/tables.
SO......
I was wondering if instead you could define these controls as a collection so that you could hide and make visible all the ones you need on button clicks and avoid the need for additional forms (subs). I know that if a user enters data into a text box, and then somewhere along the way that box becomes hidden, the data still exists in it and still ends up in the SQL statement....
So I want all these controls to exist on the same form, but I thought what is I could encapsulate them into a frame like an option group, then I could call the frame and all the relative controls would be called up (made visible) as needed.
Sorry for the long explanation but I thought it would help.
I do not think you can do it with an Option Group, but what you are describing is pretty much a subform, yesno?
Some examples of hiding the tab control from an app that went live in March 1998:
Tab driven by transparent command buttons over labels styled to look like colored command buttons:
Same approach, more buttons:
In this case, fake colored command buttons don't drive the tab, but insted show/hide the tab and a subform. In this case, the tab is actually driven by the listbox:
A view of when the tab is hidden and the subform revealed. The listbox drives navigation within the subform, which has a visible tab on it:
So, there's a lot that can be done without showing the tab control.