VB6 Question

[Jan Hyde]

Re: VB6 Question

Dean Earley <dean.earley@ic ode.co.uk>'s wild thoughts were
released on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:02:14 +0100 bearing the
following fruit:

>>>>I'm making an administrationa l software program in VB6 and was
>>>>wondering if there is a way to display a (borderless) form
>>>>inside a frame on another form, or to load the contents of a
>>>>frame into another frame. I dont want to use MDI. The reason i
>>>>want do this is because i have 1 main form with menu and all
>>>>and want to display a number of different controls but not all
>>>>at once, i want to create those 'frames' with controls
>>>>somewhere . I thought of using some frames on the main form and
>>>>making them visible or invisible on turns but i dont really
>>>>like this way.
>>>>
>>>How about moving those option off the menu, and onto a tab strip
>>>(SSTAB) it will also making mataining the form a lot easier.
>>>
>>Unfortunately , that also suffers from the issue I mentioned (still
>>be "visible" and accessible)

>>
>Huh? Maybe I missed something, can you explain?

>
>"The SSTab control has a nice feature of allowing you to switch tabs and
>place controls at runtime, but this comes at a price. When you change
>tab, the controls aren't actually hidden, but moved a long way off to
>the left. This has the undesired side affect of keeping them in the tab
>order and accessible (although out of sight)"

Easily resolved with a few frame controls, which is
something you want to do as standard when working with the
SSTAB.

J

>Taken from:
>http://hashvb.earlsoft.co.uk/Tabbed_dialogs

Jan Hyde (VB MVP)

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[Dean Earley]

Re: VB6 Question

>"The SSTab control has a nice feature of allowing you to switch

>tabs and place controls at runtime, but this comes at a price. When
>you change tab, the controls aren't actually hidden, but moved a
>long way off to the left. This has the undesired side affect of
>keeping them in the tab order and accessible (although out of
>sight)"

>
Easily resolved with a few frame controls, which is something you
want to do as standard when working with the SSTAB.

Yes, but you'd still need to make all the non active ones "not visible"
rather than just leaving them.

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[Jan Hyde]

Re: VB6 Question

Dean Earley <dean.earley@ic ode.co.uk>'s wild thoughts were
released on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:39:40 +0100 bearing the
following fruit:

>>"The SSTab control has a nice feature of allowing you to switch
>>tabs and place controls at runtime, but this comes at a price. When
>>you change tab, the controls aren't actually hidden, but moved a
>>long way off to the left. This has the undesired side affect of
>>keeping them in the tab order and accessible (although out of
>>sight)"

>>
>Easily resolved with a few frame controls, which is something you
>want to do as standard when working with the SSTAB.

>
>Yes, but you'd still need to make all the non active ones "not visible"
>rather than just leaving them.

No you don't.



Jan Hyde (VB MVP)

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[Jan Hyde]

Re: VB6 Question

Dean Earley <dean.earley@ic ode.co.uk>'s wild thoughts were
released on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:39:40 +0100 bearing the
following fruit:

>>"The SSTab control has a nice feature of allowing you to switch
>>tabs and place controls at runtime, but this comes at a price. When
>>you change tab, the controls aren't actually hidden, but moved a
>>long way off to the left. This has the undesired side affect of
>>keeping them in the tab order and accessible (although out of
>>sight)"

>>
>Easily resolved with a few frame controls, which is something you
>want to do as standard when working with the SSTAB.

>
>Yes, but you'd still need to make all the non active ones "not visible"
>rather than just leaving them.

Anyway even if you choose to change the visible propery
instead of the enabled property, we're talking two lines of
code. Seriously that can't be more of a problem than trying
to shoehorn forms into frames which will result in a lot
more code and lot more problems.



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[Dean Earley]

Re: VB6 Question

>>>"The SSTab control has a nice feature of allowing you to switch

>>>tabs and place controls at runtime, but this comes at a price. When
>>>you change tab, the controls aren't actually hidden, but moved a
>>>long way off to the left. This has the undesired side affect of
>>>keeping them in the tab order and accessible (although out of
>>>sight)"
>>Easily resolved with a few frame controls, which is something you
>>want to do as standard when working with the SSTAB.

>Yes, but you'd still need to make all the non active ones "not visible"
>rather than just leaving them.

>
No you don't.

Yes we do.
Without code to set the other frames invisible, you can use the tab key
to switch focus to controls on the other tabs.
This won't have a huge affect to most people except when they use the
keyboard to navigate and the cursor disappears for ages while it goes
through all the controls, "visible" or not.

(I did double check to make sure it still applies to the SSTab control)

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[Jan Hyde]

Re: VB6 Question

Dean Earley <dean.earley@ic ode.co.uk>'s wild thoughts were
released on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:09:34 +0100 bearing the
following fruit:

>>>>"The SSTab control has a nice feature of allowing you to switch
>>>>tabs and place controls at runtime, but this comes at a price. When
>>>>you change tab, the controls aren't actually hidden, but moved a
>>>>long way off to the left. This has the undesired side affect of
>>>>keeping them in the tab order and accessible (although out of
>>>>sight)"
>>>Easily resolved with a few frame controls, which is something you
>>>want to do as standard when working with the SSTAB.
>>Yes, but you'd still need to make all the non active ones "not visible"
>>rather than just leaving them.

>>
>No you don't.

>
>Yes we do.
>Without code to set the other frames invisible, you can use the tab key
>to switch focus to controls on the other tabs.

You can just disable the frames.

>This won't have a huge affect to most people except when they use the
>keyboard to navigate and the cursor disappears for ages while it goes
>through all the controls, "visible" or not.
>(I did double check to make sure it still applies to the SSTab control)

Like I said, it's two lines of code to deal with this, far
far less work than the path your attempting to follow.



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[Dean Earley]

Re: VB6 Question

>This won't have a huge affect to most people except when they use the

>keyboard to navigate and the cursor disappears for ages while it goes
>through all the controls, "visible" or not.
>(I did double check to make sure it still applies to the SSTab control)

>
Like I said, it's two lines of code to deal with this, far
far less work than the path your attempting to follow.

I wasn't advocating the multiple form method, it's hideous :)
I was just raising awareness of having to disable/hide the frames when
using the SSTab control.

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[Kevin]

Re: VB6 Question

Yeah, i already made it like that, didnt change the z-order, just make all
invisible and the one i want to see visible.

"Dean Earley" <dean.earley@ic ode.co.ukwrote in message
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>>I thought of using some frames on the main form and making them
>>visible or invisible on turns but i dont really like this way.

>>
>Hmmm, I like it. Making the frames same zize and on top of each other.
>Then just ThisFrame.Zorde r and voila it's on top.

>
Make sure you make the "hidden" ones invisible as well, otherwise the
user can still tab to them and blindly "change" things.
>
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