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    how can i report the locations and sizes of fields in a form

    hello:

    i have a few very similar forms that all are slightly different from each other in appearance. this is due to small differences in the size and location of the fields on the form. to correct this, i have opened the nicest looking one and writing down the left, top, width and height of all of the fields so i can edit the other forms and make them identical. is there some way to generate a report on these details? even better yet, if there was a way of editing these locations/sizes in a table of some description it would save a lot of time.


    thank you in advance


    best regards,

    ed
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    Re: how can i report the locations and sizes of fields in a form

    Ed, I believe the location and size of the fields can be extracted. However, the amount of programming to compare all the fields on two forms would probably be rather significant and I don't have enough years available to create a routine to get them then compare them to another form and edit the form. (I'm not sure if they can be automatically changed but I think they can.)

    Besides, I can almost guarantee that other issues which neither of us can think of right now will arise in a routine like that. Also, can you guarantee that (A) all fields with the same field name have the same object name on the form and (b) all fields with the same name need to be in the same location on every form?

    I'm not sure exactly what you are doing but it sounds like you might be creating more forms than necessary. It might even be one of those "I did it this way because it was easier initially" and now you're discovering that "easier initially" can mean "much harder to update later". (My daddy always told me that true selfishness involved long term thinking because short term selfishness often results in long term problems.) I've seen a number of people create multiple reports that all look the same except for things like titles, sub-titles, and areas that can be handled (shown or hidden) with conditional objects. A much simpler solution is to remember that the text of any label or title/subtitle can be passed to any layout (report or form) using a global variable and that conditional objects can have multiple layers that can be used to show only the desired layer for a specific situation. I like to think of all layouts as "a format" and then use fields or variables to complete anything that might change from one use to the next.

    This method takes a little bit longer initially but not that much once you've done a couple. The big advantage is that when you edit ONE "version", you've edited ALL versions. It isn't necessary to go in and, as I did for one app, update 10 reports just to make them all look the same.

    After writing all that, I remembered something that might work better for now. When I updated those reports, I opened two at a time in full screen, maximized mode with the Window Bar visible. Then I could switch from one to the other and immediately see any differences. If two objects were very close to the same position, I selected the "wrong" one and moved it with the arrow keys while holding down the Shift key so it moved one pixel at a time. That will probably be faster than checking the position and dimensions of each object.

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      Re: how can i report the locations and sizes of fields in a form

      Similar to what Cal stated last is how I do it as well....except I usually use the Advanced Copy and Paste from one object to the other between the two open layouts so that there is no guessing.
      Mike
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        Re: how can i report the locations and sizes of fields in a form

        Originally posted by eeetee View Post
        to correct this, i have opened the nicest looking one and writing down the left, top, width and height of all of the fields so i can edit the other forms and make them identical.
        This is painful to read!
        You could have, either:
        1-Copied the "nicest" form to the others, or
        2-Opened it and saved it as the others, or
        3-Copied all objects and pasted them to the others.
        And that's using my retro v8. Maybe in later versions there are even better ways to do this than a pencil and a paper.

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          Re: how can i report the locations and sizes of fields in a form

          hello all:

          thank you for your responses! this fourm is the greatest.

          i was checking to see if there was an internal A5 method that i had not discovered. apparently not.


          thanks very much again!!


          best regards,

          ed

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