Best Practice

[erutherford]

Curious as to the "best practice" regarding form development.
Say you have a simple form with a couple text boxes and an Add command button to capture the input. If you forget to put fill text box 1, it turns red, once filled it returns to yellow.

So is it "best practice" to code all that in the Add command button or at the text box level? I know it can be accomplished at both levels, but curious what the "best practice"?

I can see it being done at the Add command at simple levels, but maybe not as easy at a more complex levels.

thanks

 

[Fluff]

Personally I would have the Add button hidden until all mandatory boxes are filled.
There is nothing worse than a msgbox that continually pops-up telling you to add something in the next box

 

[erutherford]

I like the idea of hiding the add button until the inputs are correct. You ok with msgbox popup if the input is incorrect in a required field or do you have a different way of handling it?

 

[Fluff]

A msgbox for data validation purposes is fine. Whilst you could just empty the field, it doesn't tell the user what they did wrong.

 

[erutherford]

Thanks Fluff
good advice as always

 

[Fluff]

My pleasure