At 18:05 2013-04-25, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote:
If I want to have a form inside of another form's validation
and set focus in the second form, I can not do so. Apparently,
using LostFocus is a solution for this. I experimented a bit but
then had to do something else.
I gave up messing with all this and just went with what you would
probably call "front-end row validation".
I prefer to have field-level validation. Obviously, our values
differ some in this area. We can both be right.
I don't use grids for data entry. It's too easy for users to edit
the wrong row. They start working on row 3 and as their eyes move
from left to right they slip down to row 4 and now you have a real problem.
Well, I am not going to use grids for DE so much as for data
adjustment. The editing process that I described requires having to
be able to deal with more than one row at a time.
I use multi-column picklists to let users choose a record to edit.
(Actually, I have a homemade "list control" class that is a lot
nicer than a list control and a lot easier to use than a grid.)
If I tried a picklist, my boss -- who does the invoicing --
would very shortly tell me to put it back the way it was. We need
something easy to use.
In this case, someone who is quite comfortable with invoicing
and how the data fits together would using the grids. The DE people
would not be using them.
There is more than one way to design a usable UI.
[snip]
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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