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Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:13pm
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Is there a "clean" way to go to different areas on your form?
I want to have one form, with the look of two or three "pages" on it. 
If I use throwfocus (or macros) it goes to that field, but I have to have such a gap between my "pages" so that it looks like a new form.  I don't want to use addwidget as each "page" has a lot of fields on it.
  
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Reply #1 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:28pm
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If you insert page marker elements between your "pages", the page down key will jump to the first element after the next page marker and the page up key will jump to the last element before the previous page marker.
  
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Reply #2 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:32pm
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Thank you.  That helps!

Second questions, I see a pgdn command.  How does that work?  Can you program in a command button to page down multiple times?
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:43pm
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Yes, probably. But don't. That command is deprecated, and only included for Q&A compatibility. If you want "pages" you should probably consider using tab groups instead. They are much more space efficient, typical of user interfaces, better supported (in all programs), allow labeling to indicate the functional grouping of your elements, and may allow your elements, of any particular function group, to be seen together so as to help your users better plan.
  
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Reply #4 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 9:45pm
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debmckee wrote on Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:13pm:
Is there a "clean" way to go to different areas on your form?
I want to have one form, with the look of two or three "pages" on it.   


debmckee,

Have you played with tab elements? I find it works really great to make a tab element a bit smaller then the size of the screen then make a bunch of tab pages, set the tabs to hidden and then use command buttons with GotoTabPage(LE#, #) and  forceredraw()  somewhere convenient above the element. 

This gives you 1 form with as many pages as you like and a 1 touch method of getting to any page or section easily.

You can put tab pages within tab pages and really place the user where they need to be without much programming or effort.

Just a thought.
  
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Reply #5 - Oct 4th, 2012 at 4:19pm
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Great idea!  Was using macros and they got all messed up.

Changed everything over to large tabs that look like form pages.  No one knows the difference....
  
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