[AccessD] Wish List.

Or had too much coffee ...
On Sep 8, 2011 7:53 PM, "Darryl Collins" <darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au>
wrote:
> Aaah, thanks everyone for their thoughts and comments. It is entirely
> possible that I am just doing this the hard way (wouldn't be the first
> time). Anyway, I will probably end up using tabs like always.
>
> I don't like the way you have to leave the label visible at the top of the
> page though - even if only one tab is displayed. Visually it is not what I
> want, but I guess its all I have to work with.
>
> Anyway, didn't mean to get folks fired up about what is a tab or what is a
> page. Sometimes I think it would be nice if you could take the best of all
> the software UI and include it in a single package.
>
> Ok: Here is another prime example of poor user functionality - or more
like
> sheer bloody laziness on behalf of MSoft. If I am using Firefox tabs in
the
> browser, right on the *Active* tab there is a little "X" on the RHS of
that
> tab that allows you to close it. Nice and useful, don't have to move the
> mouse far and it is darn clear which tab you are going to close.
>
> In A2007 (which uses a tab setup to display all the open DB objects such
as
> forms, tables, queries etc) the close button is on the extreme RHS of the
> *Screen* - freakin miles away from where you are actually working. Now I
> have huge widescreen monitor at work and if I have single tab open there
is
> about 1 foot (say 28 cms) of screen real estate between the active tab I
am
> working on, and the little 'close tab' "x" on the RHS of the screen. Even
> more annoying is if you have many tabs open, you need to double check the
> one want to close is indeed the active tab before pressing the "x"
>
> - ok there are other ways of closing the tab, such as right mouse click
> directly on the tab, but why on earth didn't they just put the close "X"
on
> the active tab like everyone else does.
>
> Little gripes, I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have to pay MS so darn
> much for their software. I don't mind paying, but I expect better
> functionality and performance than I can get for free from other vendors.
>
> Heh, can you tell I need a coffee ;)
>
> Cheers
> Darryl.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
> Sent: Friday, 9 September 2011 6:48 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Wish List.
>
> I'm not sure which version the multipage control was introduced in
(probably
> 2007), but it serves the same purpose as the tab control was introduced
for
> back in A95 or A97. Tab controls actually do have pages, which you insert
> much the same way, although they aren't very intuitive either. I don't
know
> why they came up with another control to do the same thing, but such is
the
> world of Microsoft.
>
> Charlotte Foust
>
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Mark Simms <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Once again I think confusion abounds:
>> Multipage has tabs with associated pages to allow insertion of other
>> controls, etc.
>> The Tab Control is just this tiny thing that has tabs with no pages.
>>
>
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