I use the Before/After Scroll events and close datasets that are detail
datasets and then only open them again whe ntheir tab is made visible. This
way your master dataset can scroll without the overhead of detail datasets
getting records that nobody is looking at.

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dany Marmur" <arbit@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ibobjects
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:18 AM
Subject: [IBO] Tabs in forms...


> Hello!
>
> This is not about a specific case but more about design. For best
> performance (and I'm thinking about bandwidth) what way aould you go about
> to implement tab pages in a form? The form always has one "MainQuery" and
> fields from that are shown i all tabs. The LookupLinked fields and
> Masterlinked grids are littering the tabs. All is connected to one
> Transaction.
>
> 1. Split up MainQuery into one for each tab.
>
> This strikes me as messy. One would have to make sure te correct record is
> shown when the user switches tab. One would have to prepare three queries
> instead of one that might contain the same fields. There might be problems
> with default vaslues of fields not present in som Query/Tab when posting
an
> Insert from a specific tab. It might be tricky to handle Inserts if the
user
> wants to wsitch tabs while inserting. Logic migt be needed to post in a
> specific order from the tabs.
>
> 2. Turnig off controls and links in tabs that don't show.
>
> I'd like to persue this line of action. How do I do this - I don't know! I
> would like to tell the controls in one tab to simply not receive anything
in
> th style of DataChange, DataUpdate, StateChange and so on events. This
would
> make if so that a gid in tab 2 won't have to update when working in tab
one.
> It would mean some event would have to be sent to all the controls in an
tab
> that is opening but that should be fast since the data is already there
> (except for masterlinked queries). Is it feasible to also switch off the
> masterlinked and/or Lookuplinked Queries themselves? How does one go
about?
> Should I "disconnect" or disable the Datasources for the specific tab?
>
> It would be nice if an open masterlinked Query in which the user has done
> changes would _not_ be closed when switching tabs so that the user can
come
> back and continue editing util the whole thing is committet.
>
> 3. ??? More?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> /Dany
>
>
>
>
>
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