Has anyone successfully been able to remove the title from a browse, which is used in a field lookup?
If for any reason, the title can not be removed, can the its font and size of be customized?
As explained in a companion posting, I am trying to replicate the appearance of a native A5V9 combo box�s display of a list of values when a table lookup is used in a field rule.
As documented in that posting, A5V9�s displays list values differently depending on whether the data source is user entered values or values from a table.
I would like to have a more consistent appearance, and over the weekend, attempted to compensate for this shortcoming by using a custom browse.
Below are two significant snags that I encountered:
Screen 1 shows a simple browse in design mode where the title font
is set to Tahoma 16 point.
Screen 2 shows that browse in view mode. Note that as expected the
title indeed is Tahoma 16 point.
Screen 3 shows that the browse �brwLookup� is assigned to the field rule
Lookup tab for field �Telephone_type�.
What do you think the browse for the lookup field will look like on the form?
Do you expect that the title will be Tahoma 16 point?
Wouldn�t that be reasonable?
Screen 4 shows a form with the field and its Lookup browse. Sure doesn�t look like what we saw in design mode.
What happened to the Tahoma font? A5V9 has overwritten it.
What happened to the 16 point size? Again A5V9 has overwritten it.
OK, now let�s use the Object Explorer to change properties. My original goal was to replicate the appearance of a native A5V9 combo box in the display of multiple values. You may remember that a combo box does not have a title, just a list of values. So let�s use the Object Explorer to remove the title.
Screen 5 shows the browse in design mode and the property �Show titles� is initially set to True.
Screen 6 shows the browse in design mode after the �Show titles� property is changed to False. Also note that the title indeed no longer appears at the top of the list.
What do you think the display of the browse will look like?
Would you expect that just the list of values would be displayed with no title?
Wouldn�t that be reasonable?
Screen 7 shows that despite clicking the Set button and the save button, the browse is displayed with a title.
What happened to the �Show titles� property?
If you go back into design mode, you will see that A5V9 has overwritten False with True.
One last question: because a combo box does not have buttons, I would like to remove the button from a browse? I can�t seem to find a property that allows this to be done. Is it possible?
Bob McGaffic
Pittsburgh
If for any reason, the title can not be removed, can the its font and size of be customized?
As explained in a companion posting, I am trying to replicate the appearance of a native A5V9 combo box�s display of a list of values when a table lookup is used in a field rule.
As documented in that posting, A5V9�s displays list values differently depending on whether the data source is user entered values or values from a table.
I would like to have a more consistent appearance, and over the weekend, attempted to compensate for this shortcoming by using a custom browse.
Below are two significant snags that I encountered:
Screen 1 shows a simple browse in design mode where the title font
is set to Tahoma 16 point.
Screen 2 shows that browse in view mode. Note that as expected the
title indeed is Tahoma 16 point.
Screen 3 shows that the browse �brwLookup� is assigned to the field rule
Lookup tab for field �Telephone_type�.
What do you think the browse for the lookup field will look like on the form?
Do you expect that the title will be Tahoma 16 point?
Wouldn�t that be reasonable?
Screen 4 shows a form with the field and its Lookup browse. Sure doesn�t look like what we saw in design mode.
What happened to the Tahoma font? A5V9 has overwritten it.
What happened to the 16 point size? Again A5V9 has overwritten it.
OK, now let�s use the Object Explorer to change properties. My original goal was to replicate the appearance of a native A5V9 combo box in the display of multiple values. You may remember that a combo box does not have a title, just a list of values. So let�s use the Object Explorer to remove the title.
Screen 5 shows the browse in design mode and the property �Show titles� is initially set to True.
Screen 6 shows the browse in design mode after the �Show titles� property is changed to False. Also note that the title indeed no longer appears at the top of the list.
What do you think the display of the browse will look like?
Would you expect that just the list of values would be displayed with no title?
Wouldn�t that be reasonable?
Screen 7 shows that despite clicking the Set button and the save button, the browse is displayed with a title.
What happened to the �Show titles� property?
If you go back into design mode, you will see that A5V9 has overwritten False with True.
One last question: because a combo box does not have buttons, I would like to remove the button from a browse? I can�t seem to find a property that allows this to be done. Is it possible?
Bob McGaffic
Pittsburgh
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