Multipane form?

[pl213]

Is it possible to create a form (or forms) that would like like File Explorer or MS Outlook? What I tried to do was use a listbox and when I selected an item, information about the item appeared in a "pane" to the right. I can make it work but it is clunky.


Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
PL213

[Micron]

Why is it clunky? What does that mean?
There is a tree view control but it is not used much, has little documentation and often raises issues because it is an ActiveX control. Some networks don't allow them to be distributed. If I wanted an actual file explorer I'd use the msofiledialogfilepicker or msodialogfolderpicker from within Access. If I wanted something like a tree view control I'd probably do what you did, especially if the list items are just db data and not hard disk files.

[Minty]

There are treeview type controls that don't rely on ActiveX libraries.

This one works well https://jkp-ads.com/Articles/treeview.asp
And user MajP has a lot of work on similar treeview display usage here : https://www.access-programmers.co.uk...5#post-1673879

[isladogs]

One easy solution would be a subform to display the info on the selected listbox item.
Or possibly use a split form

[CJ_London]

@isladogs - don’t you have a example where user just hovers over a list item and detail appears to the right aligned to the item in the list? Might be of interest to the op?

[isladogs]

Hi @ajax.
Yes indeed I do have an example app with that functionality. Thanks for the reminder....

@pl213
See Form4 (& possibly Form5) in this example app: Move Forms & Controls - Mendip Data Systems