Re: Re: creating report changed forms

Seb wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:53:31 -0600,
> Seb <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:00:54 -0500,
>> Drew Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> こんにちは ( Hello ) Seb san,
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>>> Welcome to the wonderful world of 'the zoom setting' in Base forms -
>>> well OpenOffice.org document windows in general, but it's
>>> particularly fun with Base.
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>>> So - open your form and look to the lower right corner of the
>>> window. You will find a slider control, and text display, showing the
>>> current zoom setting for the form.
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>>> Set it to something sane - I find 100% a good first guess.. *evil
>>> grin*..
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>> Hi Drew, thanks for coming to the rescue!
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>> I cannot see the that zoom slider when I open the form in any of the
>> modes.  Checking under the "View" menu, the "Zoom" option is greyed
>> out, but I'm not sure it's the same thing.  What toolbar is it under?
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>>> Why did it change on you?
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>> No idea, but when working on the report I went to the page width
>> viewing option and set it to "optimal".  That's the only thing I can
>> guess has some relationship.
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> I eventually found the zoom slider, not in Base, but in Writer.  Oddly
> enough after I manipulated the slider in Writer, closed Writer entirely
> and then start Base again, then my forms and everything is back to using
> the zoom setting I set in Writer.  How can I activate the zoom slider in
> Base too?  It seems to be missing altogether there.

You mean that when you open a form, contained in a Base file, the window 
for the form does not have a slider in the lower right corner?

>   I'm using the
> Debian Sid openoffice.org-base package (1:3.2.0~rc4-1).  Thanks for the
> quick pointer!
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If so then sounds like a Debian error

On the other hand if you mean there is no slider at the bottom of the 
main Base window, then the fault was mine for not being more precise.

So then
- why did a text document window (Writer) change the display 
characteristics of your Base form window?
- why did working with a report in Base do the same?

Because the text document, the Base form and Report Wizard created 
report are all OpenDocument text documents.

OpenOffice.org maintains a single LastZoom (not the real name, but for 
our uses here) setting, application wide, for text documents.

The LastZoom setting is updated every time any text document's window 
zoom factor is changed.

All text documents are smart enough to use this application wide setting 
when opened, and adjust the zoom factor for the new window to match.

Simple - huh?

Which gets us to the part about making it stop.....lol...next email.

One final question to you before I go however
- By chance do you already know how to add a hidden control to a form?

Till tomorrow (it's pretty late here)

Drew