[AccessD] Wish List.

Microsoft addressed this years ago by introducing tab controls.  Why on
earth would you want to use layers that all showed up at the same time?
Logically, layers would only show the controls relevant to that layer/page.

Charlotte Foust
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Darryl Collins <
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Cheers
>
> Darryl.
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