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Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

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    Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

    Greetings to all,

    Glad to see so much activity and hope that A5V5 saves the world. (make it safe for A4V6 lovers at least) After grumbling about A5 for a long time, I bought the A5V4.5 upgrade. It was a little better and folks here are helpful.

    I've browsed the msgs and don't quite see my issue of the moment. I finally wanted to spruce up my input forms with some local bitmaps I shot last year.

    Try as I may, the design process is hampered by the fact that the fields are not locked into position relative to the bitmap, causing me to go back and forth guessing where stuff ought to go.

    Yes, I've tried to create form dimensions first, then tried Use Current Size & Position. That fixes where & how the form appears (my first concerns). But it doesn't help with seeing some fields off the bitmap. Is this so hard?

    Thanks in advance... Tim McDonnell

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    RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

    Maybe someone else out there knows a way around your problem but I think the answer to your question is "yes - it is hard".

    Using a bitmap as a decorative background works well but if you want to use it as a functional background for your layout, as it appears you are doing, you can expect problems with alignment of fields. The bitmap 'placement' will change as your screen size/resolution changes.

    Why are you doing this? Can't you build a form with title boxes, labels, etc. to look as you want? This would eliminate any concern about alignment of fields with their labels.

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      RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

      I'm trying to understand this... must be missing something. I've been using bmp backgrounds & buttons & visual flags for years. Fields go where I put them. Beside, above, below or on top of a bitmap, I get consistent results.

      What exactly are you shooting for? How exactly are you trying to do it?

      -Bob

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        RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

        Cal,

        Thanks for response.

        Perhaps I didn't explain this properly; I'm talking about just a decorative background of a street scene. No specific regions, easter eggs or anything unusual. Just a bmp.

        What's specifically bugging me is that I align my fields and labels (where applicable) relative to the objects (street sign, overpass, etc) and it looks great. I try to lock everything place and establish the right size window to open this form using the Use Current Size & Position option.

        When I open it later, the window size can differ and some of the fields appear off of the bitmap onto the white area.

        The field locations are behaving relative to the window, ignoring the bitmap dimensions itself. Is there some bitmap-to-window property I'm unaware of? This is what I meant by not WYSIWYG...

        Thanks, Tim

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          RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

          Bob,

          Thanks for reply...

          Most of the background is in the reply to Cal, but I would add this:

          The fields/labels are in position, but not always displayed over the bitmap. If I reduce the window size, the fields move back onto the bitmap. I'm still annoyed that it forces me to live with some white space on the left when I want the window to be locked at the bitmap size I composed it for to FILL the window entirely. Yes, I've used the Use Current Size & Location option and saved the design.

          I hope 5.0 cures a lot of these aggravations....

          Thanks, Tim

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            RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

            Hello Tim,

            I've no experience doing what you are trying to do, but have you selected the 'stretch' property for the bitmap or are you using 'absolute' or 'tile'? I'd try the stretch if you haven't and see what it does.

            Good luck,

            Jim

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              RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

              Tim,

              I don't now how you are applying the bitmap objects, but I often either use the backdrop bitmap or place a bitmap object under objects without any issues. Your problem is not really clear. Perhaps you can explain what kind of Alpha 5 bitmap object you are using, the options (e.g. stretch), and even better, zip up an example so we can all take a look at it.

              Regards,

              Ira J. Perlow
              Computer Systems Design & Associates
              [email protected]
              Regards,

              Ira J. Perlow
              Computer Systems Design


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                RE: Forms Design BMP not WYSIWYG?

                Jim,

                Thanks for the suggestion! There is a mild distortion but I can live with that. I closed the program and re-opened and accessed that form, it looks fine.

                Taking the issue off my official nuisance list....

                Regards, Tim

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