Pls share navbar, replacement status area?

[Diana, Cda]

I've been looking for a navigation bar I saw in a demo in last few days. I opened up all of my kept ones (and I have a ton!) but I can't find it.

I currently have first, previous, next, last and find, new and delete buttons as individual icons. I'm thinking that since I've changed the layouts so much (to tabbed interface), that although a solid bar with buttons on it would be better - even if it is much plainer. It'll make the user's life easier as it's too busy-looking as it stands. I've attached what my bar looks like across the top where the tabs rest on. Thanks!

[LaRetta]

Hi Diana, when you say nav-bar, I think of Cobalt Sky's Dynamic Navigation Bar Engine. Then you say Status bar; I think I know what you mean. I stole it myself (smile), from John Osborne. I've attached it. The file is called StatusArea and it consists of 3 calc fields: found, sort & total. Create the calcs, place them in merge fields with regular text, slap them on a status bar, and you've got it! Go to his List layout to see it. I was very excited when I first found it!

[LaRetta]

Geeez, I crashed again during upload! I dumped my cookies and temps and lets try again!

StatusArea.zip

[kennedy]

There are tons of status bar implementations out there... but I am guessing from a few clues that it might be the one that I dropped into the OS X style tab-bar that you are looking for. You can find that in the Sample Files forum... the only template posted by me. HTH.

[LaRetta]

Oh brother! Downloading those sample files was the first thing I did when I found this forum!! Then, I found 20 other sites and downloaded all of theirs ... I probably have over 200 demo files! Thanks for reminding me.

[Diana, Cda]

Me, too. I dl all the sample files but I didn't see something I could use in this very particular case. I saw it on a demo, but it was probably a shareware demo which is why I don't have it any more.

Yup, that's the idea but now I know what I meant. These are flat buttons. I wanted to see how someone handled a round bar (since I'll be working with the bar I posted here). It's the pressed button that I'm wondering about.

Thanks, I may have to use that example after all.

Cheers all and thanks for the great weekend! I had fun and my db is coming along nicely. Off to work now before it gets any later!!!

[Diana, Cda]

I went back and looked more closely at all the files. kennedy's starter template has the navbar at the top which is why I didn't see it until looking for this feature.

Thing is that all the controls are locks so can't see how he works it. Still, that's the type of navbar, if I can call it that, I need to incorporate in my db. A half cylinder bar and with all the usu. buttons on it for moving from record to record to find to how many records, etc.

If anyone sees a file like this anywhere, pls let me know. Again, it's a half-cylinder bar shape that will be used.

[LaRetta]

ooooh, oooh (hand raised in the air), I know this one ... I think! You're talking about Cobalt Sky's Dynamic Navigation Bar Engine, file name Nav_Bar.fp5. I've attached it!

nav_bar.zip

[kennedy]

I went back and looked more closely at all the files. kennedy's starter template has the navbar at the top which is why I didn't see it until looking for this feature.

Thing is that all the controls are locks so can't see how he works it. Still, that's the type of navbar, if I can call it that, I need to incorporate in my db.

It is NOT locked... hold down Option while opening it and it will ask for a password... enter "master" as the password... you'll have full access.