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    Memo field on tabbed form.

    I have two forms - customer search and customer info(Tabbed) form. The search form is based on the customer db, the customer info form is based on a customer set. On the customer search form I have several buttons, one being update, which opens the customer info form. When the info form opens all the labels are gone, if I click on any field they appear. If I open the info form directly everything is fine. What I discovered, by redoing the info form and saving each field entered, was when I placed the Notes field (Which is a memo field), on the form, saved it and opened it through the customer search form, the labels disappeared. I changed the notes form to a character form and everything is fine. The info form work fine as a stand alone form, but not if it called for through another form. Question: Are tabbed forms not allowed to have memo forms on them. Am I not going about it the right way, or do we have a odd occurance. Thanks for any suggestions.
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    RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

    tabbed forms are cetainly allowed to have memos on them.

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      #3
      RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

      John

      One of the more common things that happen with tabs is the the fields are palced too close to the edge of the tab border.

      Check that you have left a small space between the line at the edge of the tab and the highlighted edges of the label and data objects of the fields.

      It causes all sorts of funny display problems when they are too close.
      Al Buchholz
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        RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

        John,

        I have memo fields on tabbed forms which I call from buttons on other forms, and I don't have this problem as long as I activate the form on a field that is not a memo field and is not on the form. My form has a character title field which is on the form, but not the tabbed object, and I activate on it. Make sure the memo field is not first on your tab sequence list.

        Pat
        Pat Bremkamp
        MindKicks Consulting

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          RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

          Pat's idea maybe the ticket. I have lots of tabbed objects on forms with memo fields - no problem. But another field always gets focus first, as it happens to be.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

           [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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            RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

            Thank you Sewlyn and Al for your response. Yes, a tabbed form will allow memo fields to be placed on them, and I have not problem with all the lables appearing when the individual form is open. My problem occurs when I call the tabbed form from within another form, all the fields appear but not the lables. As I have just started to create this tabbed form, I placed a memo field with label in the middle of another tab, same problem, field appears but not the lable, when I click on the memo field the label appears. If I open the form outside of the calling form it works fine. Sorry I'm a little long winded here, I noticed that when the form was opend for the calling update button, a "update current record" flased on the screed, when it disappeared it left a ghost box. I'm using grey 50 on the page color, the ghose box, for lack of another name, was grey 25. It disappeared when I clicked on the field. Also I've found a solution to my problem, but probably not the answer to my question, if I select the fields only and provide my own label text, everthing work fine. Sorry I don't have enough experience to offer any explaination, just a work around. tks again.

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              RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

              "i"if I select the fields only and provide my own label text, everthing work fine
              "/i"
              That's interesting. If you drag a field with a label, it's impossible to make the word wrap feature of the label work. If you create a text object as your label, word wrap works fine. Looks like the text labels have a small, but irritating, bug-like deficiency.
              Peter
              AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

               [email protected]
              https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

                if I select the fields only and provide my own label text, everthing work fine

                That's interesting. If you drag a field with a label, it's impossible to make the word wrap feature of the label work. If you create a text object as your label, word wrap works fine. Looks like the text labels have a small, but irritating, bug-like deficiency.
                Peter
                AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                 [email protected]
                https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                  RE: Memo field on tabbed form.

                  Thanks to all of you for responding, as peter mentioned, using a text box to provide the label, works fine. My memo field is the last in the sequence, so thank you Pat for that suggestion. Tks again

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