I generally start at top left and work down or across. Grouping 'like' fields helps with this. I'm not sure about IBasic, but I know with Visual Basic, it's automatic. It starts out defaulting to creation order, but you can change the TABIndex value to customize it. I seldome use my mouse. And when I'm forced to, it's a pain. Tabbing between fields is good |
I appreciate the feedback, but honestly don't see how tabbing could fit in with the concept of my program. When you run it, the fields are initialized for you, so there is no initial data entry. The idea is to change one or more values (out of the 15-20 active) to evaluate the impact on other values. So, how do I know if a tab should put the cursor in the SFM control or the HOLE QTY control or the FEED % control? I don't have any way of predicting what variables the user is going to want play with. Or am I missing your point entirely?
I'll study your suggestions on selection methods. The more ways to do it, the merrier.
The ME.dat file has to be in the same directory as the executable. Beyond that, I can't say why you had problems running it. I never have. The program was developed on XP and NT, and has also been tested on 98 and 2000.
I hadn't considered automatic recreation of a missing data file, but will put it "on the list".
Thanks for your ideas (and more to come, I hope).
Mike