fixed height tables/grids

CalD

Not sure if I have missed this, but is it possible to have a table/grid control display the same height whether it has a full page of objects or not.

So if I tell AIM I want 10 per page, the grid will be the same height with 10 or 1 objects - if there is 1 object to show it would have 9 empty rows?

Many thanks

BLOMASKY

besides the # of records to display you can also enter the height (in pixels). (also, if the query is in a visual perspective there is a place to enter the height for the panel there (whether a query , form or HTML).

Bruce

pureist

That would be ideal and logical (specifying a set number of records in order to define a fixed height for a query), but no, you can't achieve it this way.
You have to achieve it by specifying the height of the query in pixels.
Next to the setting for "Display X Items Per Page" it would be ideal if there were a tickbox for "Fixed Height (pad with blank rows)".
Or you can set the height of the content panel and tick 'Stretch to bottom of Screen' in the query settings.
However, last I checked this doesn't quite work as I think it should as it sets the height of the query to the height of the frame the query is in, irrespective of whether the content panel the query is in is only half the height of the frame the content panel is in, and irrespective of whether there is a bottom frame. Hence, the content panel will always need to be scrolled to expose the full height of the query.
I think ticking the Stretch.. setting should stretch the query to the height of the content panel in which it is contained.
Otherwise the way it is, the Stretch.. setting is just like setting a fixed height for the query except that the value for the fixed height is equal to the height of the frame, which is meaningless when taken in the context of the query and the reason for why you want the query to be a certain height in this scenario.

CalD wrote
Not sure if I have missed this, but is it possible to have a table/grid control display the same height whether it has a full page of objects or not.
So if I tell AIM I want 10 per page, the grid will be the same height with 10 or 1 objects - if there is 1 object to show it would have 9 empty rows?
Many thanks

CalD

Thanks for the feedback team, I'll have a look at those options and see if i can come up with something a little more to my liking, the biggest thing I am not liking is when I have tabs at the top of a screen and then the buttons on each tab - at the bottom change position depending on how many records there are to show...

Cheers

pureist

Yes, it is obvious that you would want an application to have a consistent uniform interface, without buttons darting up and down the screen with every form tab/section switch.
This issue was reported here: https://forum.awareim.com/d/8810>
Read points 1. - 10. in the first post.
If you specify a fixed height for a form, then the buttons in default position should remain at the bottom of the form irrespective of whether grids contract and expand or whether the height of all the content on one form tab/section is different to anothers.
But they don't. The buttons dart up and down according to the end of the controls on each tab/section and leave a gray no-mans land at the bottom of a fixed height form below the Buttons.
The only way to achieve what you want now is to set fixed heights for grids and insert blank rows on form tabs/sections, so that all form tabs/sections are approximately the same height, such that the form buttons in default position only move a few mm up or down when switching between tabs/sections.

CalD wrote
Thanks for the feedback team, I'll have a look at those options and see if i can come up with something a little more to my liking, the biggest thing I am not liking is when I have tabs at the top of a screen and then the buttons on each tab - at the bottom change position depending on how many records there are to show...
Cheers