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Has anyone experienced these same frustrations??? :confused:
I have a project which will appraise items and then store in a database for future references... I know where I want to be ending up with all of this as well!
What's frustrating is... I've spent a BUNCH of time on the GUI only to keep modifying and moving things around, until it's a mess!
Now I absolutley hate what I have and I'm going to start all over again! I feel as if I've wasted over a week of my spare time in developing this thing! :mad:
How have some of you overcome this, or is it just me??? ;)
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Actually, I always thought of the GUI as the "fun" part of developing an app. But I know where you're coming from, and I've completely redesigned many a GUI (and it can be time-consuming, modifying all the TabIndexes, etc.)
What may help is if you sketch out your GUI design on paper first, before jumping into VB.
Just my $0.02.
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What I've learned to do is make the GUI first.
(Sketching it out out on a piece of paper like BruceG helps)
Then I make the app round the GUI.
It sounds weird but I find it saves time.
My $0.03
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Yeah I've done all of that too! :)
But then I come up with new ideas and "better" ways of designing the GUI that all of a sudden it's nowhere near what I had imagined!
Then the FLOW of the GUI is distorted! And I can hardly see my monitor for all of the crumpled up balls of paper piling up around me! :D
