navigate between forms/stacks

[jlspereira]

hello. I am a real newbie to Livecode, coming from MS/Access.

In my application I need to have a number of forms, that show different views of the backbone database. In ms/access it is quite easy: you just design a master form and program a button that enables you to jump to a specific form, opening it. On the subform, on the "open event" you close the original form (if needed), and you program a button that will reopen it.

I reckon that, in livecode, I must design a stack for each of the forms. My question is: how do we navigate on them? Or is there a completly different paradigm that I am overlooking?

[Dixie]

Hi...

You don't need to put each form in a new stack... You can put a form on separate cards in a stack... or use 'tabs' and put a form into a group, hiding and showing groups depending on which 'tab' you click on...

[dunbarx]

Hi.

What Dixie said, and that holds true even if the physical size of each form is different.

I assume that when you say Access allows you to jump to different forms, based on a master form, that the default data in each instance changes, but not the format of the form itself. Is that what you meant? If so, and I cannot imagine it otherwise, then, again, what Dixie said. Write back if you need a jump start.

Craig Newman

[FredBeck]

Hi,
True and true...
However just to answer your initial question, you can still

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go to card 1 of stack myStack in window

if you want to stick to stack (Ha! Pun!) based forms.
Fred.

[jlspereira]

Hi all !

Thanks a lot. It's working now with your help!