Long canvas with scroll bar
sharpeJun 30 2009 — edited Jul 2 2009Hi. I have a form with a very long canvas containing more items than fit on the screen at a time - meaning some items are far down on the canvas and do not appear unless the user physically uses the mouse and scrolls down. This causes a problem for me because as the user tabs through the various fields the cursor will eventually "appear" to disappear. It has not actually disappeared of course, but it has simply navigated to an item that is further down on the canvas out-of-sight. Thus the user must recognize that this has happened and then use the mouse to scroll down and find the cursor again.
Is there a way to automatically coordinate this scrolling so that the cursor always stays in view for the user - meaning that the user will never have to manually scroll down to find the cursor? Or worst case, can I programatically scroll down for the user so that the cursor always remains visible?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have any sample code please send it to: steve.s.buechler@us.ibm.com
Thanks in advance.
Edited by: Buechler on Jun 30, 2009 12:20 PM