How to use @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar])?

hcl-bot · April 28, 2004, 3:28am

hi

I try to create a database with horizontal scrollbars switched on!

the only thing I found is: @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar]) but i cannot use this command to switch the scrollbar ON.

if I put this command to the postopen of a view, it’s switching die scrollbar on/off every time the user selects another view (and back)

I cannot put the command to the postopen of the database, because there is no view open yet …

what is this command good for??? I cannot imagine!

it’s impossible to query the scrollbar visibility nor to switch it ON or OFF

any help would be nice

MfG

Stefan K.

hcl-bot · April 28, 2004, 9:47am

Subject: how to use @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar])?

This should be working for you as you do have it in the correct place:@Command([ViewHorizScrollbar]; “1”);

it should not be switching back and forth, though. You must put this in the postopen event for every view. hth Cathy

hcl-bot · May 3, 2004, 4:00am

Subject: RE: how to use @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar])?

it should not be switching back and forth, though. You must put this in the postopen event for every view. hth Cathy

it should ?

it does not!

in a 5.0.11 client in switches the scrollbar on and off every time I open this view (with the @command in postopen)

in a 6.0.3 client it shows the scrollbar for 0.1 second!

and, there is not action in the menu to switch the scrollbar manually on …

anyway - it’s not documented in the help database with a 2nd option)

(I’m sick of this software)

thank You anyway for your post!

hcl-bot · May 3, 2004, 12:36pm

Subject: Did you add the “1” as I posted previously?

And you do need to put it in each view; otherwise, when you come back from a view where you don’t have it turned on it could be causing the problem you are experiencing.

And, how do your users switch back and forth between views? From a navigator? Using View-Go To - from the toolbar? Hitting an exit button to return to a navigator to choose a new view? I’m in 6.0.2CF1 and have not experienced this. Too bad no one else has answered your posting.

hcl-bot · May 4, 2004, 3:44am

Subject: RE: how to use @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar])?

@Command([ViewHorizScrollbar]; “1”);>You must put this in the postopen event for every view. hth Cathy

I tried that of course… I do nothing else for the past view days

no matter where I put this command in the postopen events … it’s imposible to have the scrollbar always on (neither in 5.0.11 nor in 6.0.3)

I tried a frameset with the “frame scrolling setting” always on

and normal views … no change in R5 and R6

I guess I found the solution. according to the fixlist database this behavior changed with LN version 5.0.13 and 6.0.2

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/Search?SearchView&Query=scrollbar&SearchOrder=0&Start=1&Count=100

this “bug-fix” erased in my lotus notes menu the action to switch the scrollbar on and created my new problem to switch the scrollbar on in a particular database.

lotus/ibm could say “it works as designed” but I think it’s (Micro$oft) crap, because it takes control from the user. (normaly I want to control my notes and PC and not vice versa)

anyway

I use a virtual screen resolution of 2048x1536 and a small font.

my notes client shows all columns in every view, so notes decided not to show me the scrollbar at all. this seems ok for me (although I hate this) but the problem remains for my customers as they do not have 5.0.13 or 6.0.2

so, I spend days to figure this out and end up with nothing …

I’m not able to switch the scrollbar on for my customers - or I have to do a client update to 5.0.13

there is still the questition what this @command is cood for or the scrollbarsettings in a frameset … I still have no idea.

btw: where did You find the information that …[ViewHorizScrollBar];“1”) works ??

I didn’t find in on the web via google!

thanks Cathy for Your replys.

sorry for my bad english

greetings from Germany

Stefan K.,

who rather uses mozilla mail than LN

hcl-bot · May 4, 2004, 11:06am

Subject: It really really works for me, Stefan.

I put it in the postopen event of every single, individual view. Sometimes when you upgrade though things get screwed up; sometimes all you need to do is delete the formula and retype it. In the worst case scenario, you can teach your users to hit the arrows cursors to the right of the right shift key, between it and the numeric keypad. This is the pad that looks like ^ < >

It is not my intent to offend you by the picture or description – I frankly have no idea if you use the same type of keyboards as we do in the US.

I started using ViewHorizScrollBar in version 4.6 in the Designer Help.

Anyway, if your user does not see the scrollbar and hits the right > arrow as described above, it should appear immediately. Good Luck! I’ll keep checking back if you respond. I’ll put this on to post to me. Cathy

P.S. Your English is very good; it is a shame that we Americans are so limited on second languages (for the most part) ourselves. Hurray for you for weeding through a foreign language website and doing so well as you have!!!

hcl-bot · May 11, 2004, 7:35am

Subject: RE: how to use @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar])?

I put it in the postopen event of every single,>individual view.

I did that, but it didn’t help. if I select views: first,second,first,second … it switches the scrollbar on and of (notes client 5.0.13)

in 6.0.3 the behavior didn’t change too … the scrollbar is only shown if not all columns are visible due to a small notesclient window.

Sometimes when you upgrade though things get

screwed up; sometimes all you need to do is

delete the formula and retype it.

I know that, too … it’s a shame for lotus/ibm to let us work with such !"§$%&/ software. they work on notes for years. I hope they will stop adding features nobody realy needs but to improve or redesign notes/domino. (gui, stability, …)

In the worst case scenario, you can teach your

users to hit the arrows cursors to the right of

the right shift key, between it and the numeric >keypad. This is the pad that looks like

this is not realy a solution (not even a workaround) … you need the mouse to swtich between views … you can not teach people to use the keyboard becauce the software isn’t able to show the scrollbar all the time.

I frankly have no idea if you use the same type

of keyboards as we do in the US.

yes, we do have the same keyboards. (just a view letters are sorted differently)

Anyway, if your user does not see the scrollbar

and hits the right

arrow as described above,

it should appear immediately.

yes it does. but it’s never a good solution if you have to remember thinks … some people will forget this and somewhere in the furture they will start asking stupid questions (admins will know every trick in every software a company uses for decades, right? )

Good Luck! I’ll keep checking back if you

respond. I’ll put this on to post to me. Cathy

maybe You have time to respond to my private email: stefankaerst@web.de

I would like to hear from you

I stop trying to find secret solutions for a such an unimportant thing.

P.S. Your English is very good; it is a shame

that we Americans are so limited on second

languages (for the most part) ourselves. Hurray

for you for weeding through a foreign language >website and doing so well as you have!!!

for reasons I don’t understand our bosses like notes/domino very much - so I have to help them with such “important” problems.

if I were the boss I would change to suse linux/sendmail/mozilla

greetings

stefan k.

hcl-bot · August 26, 2004, 2:32pm

Subject: how to use @Command([ViewHorizScrollBar])?

This is from R6 Designer Help:

Note ViewHorizScrollbar is not supported in Release 6; with Release 6, the view automatically supplies a scrollbar when necessary.