[AccessD] Wish List.

Group blocks of controls and then drag the groups you are working on down to below the 
visible area of the screen?



On 8 Sep 2011 at 11:47, Darryl Collins wrote:

> Been doing a lot of work with forms. In particular single forms with a
> lot of controls that are hidden or revealed depending on what options
> are available.  I really wish MS were inspired by Adobe with how form
> design behaves.  Why can't forms be layered?  So you can work on
> individual layers which only have the relevant controls for that
> layer, but when the form is displayed all layers are shown, just like
> an image in Photoshop for example.
> 
> 
> 
> That would be super useful as right now if I want to change anything
> on first controls I added, I have to move all of the other controls on
> top out of the way, make the changes, and then put them all back
> again.  A real PITA.  Would be wonderful to turn on and off visibility
> on the layers and then it would be easy to access any set of controls
> that are just on that layer.
> 
> 
> 
> I know I can sort of fake this by using tabs, is this a better way or
> does anyone has a different angle I can consider?
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Darryl.
> 
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