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Rubes_sw · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: Tab and Table Element

OK i have a problem eg.

I have a dialog with a TAB Element on it

On one of the tabs i have a Table Element, and A line element behind it so i can add items to the table list (Due to vds5 bug).

When i change to another tab, the elements do not show.

I am using Hide and Show elements rather than Add and Remove.

Is there any way to fix this ?

Nathan

Rubes_sw · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject:

Found a solution,

I am just going to use tommys VDSLISTS.DLL, its working great no hide, show bugs and add to list bugs.

Nathan

Sorry, I must sasy this !

I do like VDS a Lot, but i find it frustrating that we have to find workarounds for bugs in VDS5 !, eg. the Table Element has to be on a Line Element to be able to add items to it plus more...

This is only my opinion and again i must stress i really do like VDS5 and i really find this community at VDS World excellent, i could not complete some of my programs without the help of users here.

Serge · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject:

rubes wrote

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

But you also have to agree, that without VDS 5, there wouldn't be that
feature, so I wouldn't complain. Razz

Serge · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 12:19 am Post subject:

hi ff,

i take your point but it is not just the table element that has a quirk, i have never been able to get the timer thing working properly (especially the event it is supposed to generate at the end of a countdown)...this means that i have had to come up with extra code to do what the timer should have done as you will see in my competion entry

i understand that it is hard to bring out 100% code in something complicated as vds, but it is still frustrating when it doesn't work as documented and you have to find workarounds

all that rubes and i are doing are expressing our occasional frustration rather than an all out complaint against cr or vds...i have looked at other languages and always come back to vds because i find it so good for what i do (+ i use at school with my students to do some minor maths programming projects)

Very Happy

serge

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

No problem, no hard feelings. Smile

I just wanted to make sure you remembered that Commercial Research
has only a few programmers while a company like Borland has hundreds.

It's good to voice your opinion though. Wink

Serge · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:

no probs

serge

vdsalchemist · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

Skit3000 · Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

I can understand the need of the table element, because it gives VDS programs a whole new look... For example, most programs need some database to work, which can now be visualised with the use of the table element... Smile

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Personally I'm very happy the table element was implemented. But it would
indeed be nice to have an ability to create/add our own controls. Smile

Rubes_sw · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject: Need a Workaround?

OK,

I have a TAB Element with loads of other controls etc on each tab,

I am using dialog hide, dialog show etc instead of dialog remove, dialog add when the TAB is clicked.

To resolve the issue of the Table Element not displaying the data, i have placed the line element behind it the exact same size.

When i go to another tab, the controls are not displayed, the line element is not hiding correctly and therefore i can not change any settings.

So i can not post any source code, but this is a really big project and i don't want to give anything away ! Very Happy

Nathan

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I've found theres a lot of bugs with elements not hiding/showing correctly
with VDS - all versions. This is really annoying and I hate to design things
with tabs because of this. The tab control usually takes me like 3 hours
alone to get working right for the typical program I make. Sad

CodeScript · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:29 am Post subject:

I haven't done nay serious work with tabs in VDS but if it's so stubborn then in VDS 5 you can give a try using API to aaditionally force set the parent of your Table to a Group without a title (better than Line IMO) over it and then hide/show the group. I think that should work for you.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Thanks for the tip - hadn't thought of it - next time I'll try it out. Very Happy