Is this possible?
For a form displayed in a vertical split tab panel, to simulate “focus” on the form.
Thanks,
Don
not sure about forms, but you could change the border type of the splitpane:
http://wiki.servoy.com/display/public/D … ane-border
But then you still don’t know which form has the focus, right? Maybe you should give other visual clues like coloring the background of the active textfield or control. In essence I think it shouldn’t matter for the user. Just like going back an forth between the navigation pane in Outlook and the Mail list.
I think a programmer sees two forms and a user only sees one?
Kind regards,
Hi Omar,
What I’m doing is trying to provide a visual clue.
There are two views attached. One is from the old (current) program (with names obscured). The darker rectangle around the upper list indicates that it has the focus. There are also upper/lower radio buttons, but they are small in comparison.
The second illustration is from the new (Servoy) program. Thanks to the other suggestion I was able to place a thick blue bar at the top of the list. When the user clicks on a line in the lower list, the thick blue bar disappears from the upper list, and goes to the bottom of the lower list. But it’s not as clear as with the rectangle in the old program, as to what is going on.
It would also be very helpful to be able to click anywhere in the upper or lower list and get the focus to change – whether or not the user clicks on a row or on the empty space. The user is able to do that in the old program with an onFocus-type event.
Thank you,
Don
Hi Don,
Ok, I understand what you mean. I have tried to manipulate the borders before as well in a situation like this but to no avail. Perhaps a workaround could be to add a rectangular shape to the forms that you make visible when the form gets the focus and hide the other one. It will take a little extra work but you have more options on how and what you show to the user. It’s not a very elegant solution but it should work…
Kind regards,