Software / Technology Tips

controller.loadRecords() method is used to load records to a form’s foundset. This TIP will make you familiar with different flavors/ways of loading records by using controller.loadRecords() method. controller.loadRecords() can be used in Three different flavors/ways. The syntax of the method is : controller.loadRecords([foundset/pkdataset/query], ) You can load records to the foundset by passing a foundset(must…

Concept: The basic concept behind this tip is to make a div of particular height and use an empty star image ( assume grey bordered star that will act as blank star ) which will be repeated in x-axis and look something like below Then we need to create another div inside it with same…

As the Servoy’s code editor supports Javascript and in-line Java, you can use almost all the Javascript keywords with in Servoy. Among the powerful Javascript keywords, “WITH” keyword is used to reduce Object references in your code dramatically. You can also make your code more readable by using WITH. This TIP will explain you the…

In the eraly days, renaming Servoy solution was as easy as is renaming any other file but with the release of the Eclipse version of Servoy, a lot of things changed including the process of renaming solutions. In this tip I am going to show you the work around, using which you can rename your…

Many of us know this and have used it also but some people do not know what CSS sprites are. So this tip will give an idea to those people who do not know what it is. What is CSS Sprite? It is a technique where more than images are taken, combined into one complex…

Most of us face a great deal of difficulty while designing Web pages or content across browsers with same same look and feel effect. A website that looks cool in a particular browser,  may not look as cool (or may even look ugly) in another browser. The reason behind this is that all browsers do…

While displaying your records in a grid/table view in your application, you may have wondered about choosing the view, whether you should choose List view or Table View?. This TIP will let you help in taking the decision in choosing the List View Or Table View. If you just want to show your records in…

Sometime back we created a feature of  highlight text(each word is inside a div) when user moves mouse while keeping left button pressed.A few days ago firefox has launched its new version 8.0,and we are getting the complain of breaking the highlight functionality in firefox 8 while in all other versions it was runing fine…

Problem: Scroll view achieved using CSS overflow scroll property for android & ios devices are never that smooth as they are in the native way. Solution: So, to achieve that smoothness, we need to use CSS positioning property as well as css3 -webkit-overflow-scrolling property. let’s see how we can achieve this. For iOs & Android…

While working on the HTML designs, I came across some of the design issues that I would like to share them along with the solutions. Requirement #1: A scrollable view with fixed header and footer with 50px of height ( should work for multiple resolutions ). Basic Layout : Header Content.... footer Problem: We need…