Re: [libreoffice-users] base: tab order bug, and a workaround

Tom,

Well...there go my excuses!

Once again, thanks so much for your help. Always, always appreciated!

t.

On 07/01/2011 04:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> This guide
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
> has advice but more importantly it has a link to LO's bug reporting area.  Don't
> take the advice too seriously.  A lot of the info they ask for can be added to a
> report later.  It's more important just to get a bug reported at the right place
> and worry about finesses later.
>
>
> You need to register at the site.  It's just like a forum really except that
> it's not for just chatting or saying "me too" (even tho that can help).  You
> don't need to learn anything, just register and post a new thread (like starting
> an email thread such as this one).
>
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Tom Cloyd<tc@tomcloyd.com>
> To: LibreOffice User's Help Forum<users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Fri, 1 July, 2011 10:56:53
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] base: tab order bug, and a workaround
>
> OK I still need to learn how to report bugs, etc., and I will. But meanwhile my
> desperate rush to get some work done with Base presses my forward.
>
> This apparent bug made me crazy for a while this evening until I found a
> workaround.
>
> The problem: Designing a form, the issue of tab order arises if you use the form
> wizard and start moving text fields around, or if you don't use the form wizard.
> Tab order may be explicitly addressed in the properties dialog (double clicking
> a control is one way to get it), OR in the Tab Order dialog. But changes made
> are not evidenced, at all, when switching from edit mode to execution mode.
> Nothing I tried worked. I simply got an apparently random tab order, which is a
> data entry show stopper!
>
> The solution: After making an tab order change, close out the form designer.
> Open the form directly into execution mode. The new tab order will be evidenced.
> The problem with this is that if you have more form editing to do, you must
> close the form out and return to edit mode, as there is no way to get from an
> initial execution of a form into design mode.
>
> As far as I'm concerned this is definitely a bug (any disagreement?). Two bugs,
> actually - the second being the inability to get from initial execution of a
> form to design mode without first closing out the form.
>
> I'm just glad I found a way to get the tab order I must have to make the form
> usable.
>
> Tom Cloyd tc@tomcloyd.com (435) 272-3332
>
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