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Touch Screen Buttons?

Hi There,

Unfortunately, back again :-(

As part of this all singing all dancing salon database - (which FishVal kindly helped with the appointment side) I'm onto the searching of customers....

I have a form where the search function works great with a keyboard. I was wondering whether it would be possible to have some buttons in the form footer a through to z which put that letter in the relevant text box??

Any hints greatly appreciated!


Thanks


Dan
Oct 14 '07 #1
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MMcCarthy
14,534 Expert Mod 8TB
I think the buttons idea is overkill. Why not use a combobox with values A to Z. Then in the after update event of the combobox you can pass the value to the textbox.
Oct 14 '07 #2
nico5038
3,080 Expert 2GB
Perhaps better to instruct your users with the instruction I give my users:
http://www.geocities.com/nico5038/xR...nstruction.zip

This offers "keuboard free" selections of many values....

Nic;o)
Oct 14 '07 #3
I think the buttons idea is overkill. Why not use a combobox with values A to Z. Then in the after update event of the combobox you can pass the value to the textbox.
hi mmccarthy

i was thinking about the buttons because the user would effectively type part of the name - the form then automatically updates to show the "matches" below.

as it will be touch screen, i thought buttons would be perhaps more user friendly than a drop box??

thanks


dan
Oct 14 '07 #4
MMcCarthy
14,534 Expert Mod 8TB
Then I think you could use something like an option group. Maybe using radio buttons on a group of A to Z.
Oct 14 '07 #5

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