WKL Forms Object Library how-to guides

Step-by-step guides for tasks with the WKL Forms Object Library.

• How to: Accept files dropped from File Explorer
• How to: Add items to the shortcut menu
• How to: Assign context menus to forms, reports and controls
• How to: Build a side bar with cards
• How to: Build a start page with key figures
• How to: Build a tree from flat records
• How to: Build an Access application from its text sources
• How to: Check an Access form with WklValidator
• How to: Choose how linked tables log in
• How to: Choose the areas of a layout
• How to: Choose the language of the components
• How to: Collect a trace of the WKL controls for support
• How to: Control the ribbon from code
• How to: Create event procedures for a control
• How to: Define columns and bands
• How to: Deliver an application for production
• How to: Deploy an application with WKL controls to user PCs
• How to: Design the navigation entries
• How to: Edit records beside the list
• How to: Edit records in an Access form
• How to: Enter a number with arrows and a unit
• How to: Exchange plans with Microsoft Project
• How to: Export the chart
• How to: Export the list to Excel
• How to: Fill a menu just before it opens
• How to: Fill the navigation bar from a table
• How to: Filter grid columns
• How to: Filter tree list columns
• How to: Format cells conditionally
• How to: Give an application its title and icon
• How to: Give every page the same header
• How to: Group records and show totals
• How to: Handle errors of WKL controls in VBA
• How to: Handle your own shortcuts in an application shell
• How to: Install the released package
• How to: Keep several values of a record as tokens
• How to: Keep the user's arrangement
• How to: Let operators move the connections of a delivered application
• How to: Let the navigation bar lie over the page
• How to: Let users edit the tree
• How to: Link a tree to a master record
• How to: Link two grids without code
• How to: Localize an application
• How to: Look up a value with a button beside the text
• How to: Match the colors of the database design
• How to: Move all connections to another server
• How to: Move an application to release 2.0
• How to: Narrow a list with filter chips
• How to: Open forms from the navigation bar
• How to: Open the designer of a control
• How to: Plan tasks with dependencies
• How to: Print gauges and charts in a report
• How to: Put WKL controls into forms by code
• How to: Run the grid's commands from your own buttons
• How to: Save and restore the view
• How to: Search and filter nodes
• How to: Send many requests to a web service at its pace
• How to: Set the content of layout areas in the designer
• How to: Show a count on a button
• How to: Show a note after an action, with Undo
• How to: Show a record as a property list
• How to: Show a status from a field of the record
• How to: Show commands only in development
• How to: Show counts on navigation entries
• How to: Show detail views below a record
• How to: Show large tables in server mode
• How to: Show limits and a trend in a chart
• How to: Show long text in a list
• How to: Show only your own category in the navigation pane
• How to: Show real data in Design view
• How to: Show records as a two-line list
• How to: Show SVG symbols in the color of the form
• How to: Show values as a heat map
• How to: Split two areas with a bar
• How to: Stay on a page with unsaved changes
• How to: Switch a view with segments
• How to: Take over a category arranged in Access
• How to: Take over a ribbon written by hand
• How to: Take over the links a front end already has
• How to: Use a composite key
• How to: Use a layout on a navigation page
• How to: Use a toggle switch for a Yes/No field
• How to: Use an Access shortcut menu bar in a grid
• How to: Use GUID keys
• How to: Use lookup columns
• How to: Use the layout controls on UserForms
• How to: Use the ribbon's commands in a context menu
• How to: Validate cell input
• How to: Vary the navigation pane per environment