We have a window for a customer database which exceeds the number of entities, ie it has too many fields.

As we wish to add many more fields, what is the easiest way to break the screen into one main screen with 3-4 sub-screens which may be called by clicking a button on the main screen?

Greg,

Hopefully Don will break in here with one of his links to previous threads .. but until then …

The only way that this will work is that you will have to handle the read/writes etc.

1) open window 1

 (optionally open the other windows but have them Visible=false)

2) when user enters id read record

3) user clicks button to window X, set data in all the controls then set the window visible=true

4) when user clicks 'write' button you will have to extract data from all controls, update the record and write.

This all sounds much easier than it is .. it would be nice if OI could handle realworld situations but ..

Speakup if you need some more help ..

dsig

David Tod Sigafoos ~ SigSolutions

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Greg,

Here is one thread that deals with this issue, and here is another. If they don't fill the bill then come back and we'll try to work with you some more on it.

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I too have found this in the past, and in my case (helpful?) I had many pages (eg 9) and some have lots of edit lines for data entry, each with an associated static text control.

By changing this to an edit-table, with the text in column 1, being disabled and the field in column 2, then one control does the entire lot.

It does mean a little bit of work, but certainly reduces the number of controls enormously and speeds things up too as there is only one control to update and event to handle for validation etc.

Hope it helps, but as I say, this was in my situation and may not apply.

David,

Thanks. I was hoping for something simpler, eg a facility within OI to do the donkey work. It appears that I have to do it myself.

Greg

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