I have a problem stated below....
I have a MDI form having different child form. if i open the form then if related data not exist in database, a suggestion banner should appear top of the forms to enter related data first. Even, if I close the child form, suggestion banner should remain open and Onclick on that banner go to specific form to add the record. There should be different banner of different forms. so please help me to implement this scenario.
Thanks in Advance.
I want to use which control as banner. so after struggling i fount panel best as banner. Setting panel property -> AccessibleRole = Alert. So I implement scenario easily.
Instead of opening the child form, open the banner form first (which opens the child form).
Then check in the banner form if the data has been entered. If it has:- close the banner form.
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I have a form with a subform that is a continuous form. I have a tab control that displays information related to the record selected in the continuous form; the tab control displays as soon as a record is selected/clicked. That all is grand.
However, after the user updates information in the tab control and clicks a button, I want to hide the tab control until a record is actually clicked on the continuous form.
What is currently happening is that the first record in the continuous subform is selected and I'd like for no record to be selected.
Is there a way to set the current record/selection of a continuous form to nothing or null? I've tried setting the bookmark on the continuous form to null in the button click event using Parent.SubApptList.Form.Bookmark = Null and that does not work for me.
Seems like it should be easy, but I can't figure it out.
After the button click event could you set focus to the parent form? Doing this would force the user to click on a record. Maybe I'm not fully understanding exactly what you're trying to do but if all you want is for nothing to have focus after a button event then that's the route I would take. That's assuming you don't having any on focus events for thr main form.
I'm developing a VB.net windows application and I have some issues with the keyboard input.
My application has different forms and I'm showing and hidding them with the user interaction. One of the inputs comes from the keyboard, and here is where I have a problem.
When I hide a form and show the next one, most of the times the new-shown form does not receive the keyboard input until I click somewhere on it.
I assume that the problem is that the new form I'm showing is not the "selected application" for windows until the user interacts with it by clicking on it, but I don't know how to set this "property" by code.
I tried with focus and select on the whole form (Me.select/focus) and in some form's control (me.lbl_xxx.select/focus), but I did not get any result.
Can anyone explain me how to control which application/form gets the keyboard input on windows?
Thanks
David
You can't really interact with a label so the input focus won't be set properly.
Focussing a specific textbox on your form on the other hand should just work fine.
I'm using VB.NET (VS2008) and have a form (frmMain) that calls another form (frmCleanUp) but when frmCleanUp shows it can be hidden behind frmMain.
What I'd like to have is the new form be locked and have to close to get rid of it?
Thanks..
Show the Form with .ShowDialog() instead of .Show().
This way, the form is shown as modal dialog box and will stay on top until you close it.
when you show the form, do it with ShowDialog
in frmMain do:
frmCleanUp.ShowDialog
I am developing a program to track client information that utilizes a navigation form as a main menu that is open at all times. Many of the subforms have list boxes that need to be requeried as data is entered/changed or the users tend to think that they haven't changed the recordset and we end up with duplicate data. I can't figure out how to check if a specific subform of the navigation form is open before I run a refresh... they are all referenced as 'NavigationSubform'. So, for example, if I add a new job placement for a client, I'd like to run a requery of this listbox in the 'onclose' event to make sure they have the newest info. I can do it... Forms!navMain!NavigationSubform.Form.lstEmployment.Requery ... but it bombs if the user has changed panes on the navigation form before closing the form. This happens a lot: for example, a client interrupts while you are entering Job Placement info and you stop and enter a counseling note before going back to it, leaving the main menu sitting in the 'Clinical' directory. Is there a way to check if a specific subform is loaded within the Navigation Subform object? I've attached a screen shot in the event it helps this make sense.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!!
Employment Screen
It has been a while but I believe you can use the isLoaded method to determine if a subform is loaded
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff194656.aspx
hope this helps,
Brent
You can check the contents of a subform control with the source object property, for example:
forms!mainform.asubformcontrol.sourceobject
You can also get the name of the form from the form object:
forms!mainform.asubformcontrol.form.name
in my VB.NET application, my main Form can show other Forms. That works fine, but I need to set "focus" on the newly opened form, and don't allow the user use the main form until the opened Form is closed. How do I do that?
The Form.ShowDialog() method shows a form as a dialog box; this should keep the focus on that form until it is closed (by the user or your code).
Use the Form.ShowDialog() method.
It will show you the form as a dialog box, so focusing is at total, and it will ignore all other forms or objects.