Form going blank - arrgghhhh

[Andren]

Hi all !

Still struggeling with my litterature database - solving some problems sometimes, running inte new ones now and then - i keep myself busy.

I want my application to have dual interfaces - one for english speaking people and one for swedish speaking people.

In order to show data about books I created a table called "books" and based a form on that table.

All labels on that form was in swedish language.
I made it look good. I labeled it SB-form (Swedish Book Form). Then I wanted to create an english duplicate of that form so I took my Swedish master form and saved it under a new name "EB-form (i.e. English Book Form).

Now - even if the table (Books Table) is not populated with data I can see the fields and the labels on my "swedish form" BUT NOT ON THE ENGLISH FORM.

This drives me crazy because I do not understand why.
Do you ?

As always I'm most grateful for any comment.

/ Anders

 

[Rich]

Does that mean that both English an Swedish versions are stored within the same table, and same fields?
I'm curious how you switch languages

 

[wjoc1]

If I understand you correctly you have two forms which are based on the one table.
If this is the case check that the data entry property on both forms is the same. This is under the the Data tab in the properties window. Setting this to no would cause the form to appear blank when there is no records in the table, while setting this to yes (albeit data entry) would cause the form and all it fields to appear just with no information in them.

I've a feeling I'm way off the mark here but hell it's a sugggestion anyway.

Liam

 

[Andren]

Well, yes...

Both forms (English and Swedish) are based on the same table.
In that table I have stored codes (numbers) for various selection criteria (sex,age,type of drug use etcetc). Every selection criterium is one field in the table.

Appropriate codes was put there by the help of corresponding combo-boxes in the input form.

The combo-boxes picked their codes from correponding "stand-alone" little tables having three fields (Code-field, Enlish-label field, Swedish label field).

Creating Swedish Input Form I made the combo-boxes to show swedish labels and put the codes in the corresponding first bound field in the database. Creating English Input form I did the same thing - only shoosing English Labels.

This is how it was done - and it works.

However I´m still stuck with the problem of not beeing able to show labels and fields on the english form - although settings for both forms are identical.

Help !
I need sombodys help
...just anybodys help..
help .. oh help ... help...help...help

(You can sing it)

/ Anders

 

[Andren]

THIS problem solved

Yeap !
It was the settings of the forms that were wrong.
Stupid,stuped me....

Thanks a lot for your answers...

/ Anders