How to preview data in form designer in #Base?

[rokejulianlockhart]

@rokejulianlockhart

My computer is powerful enough. However, it doesn’t appear to be possible currently, because the user can’t even have it open whilst editing it.

[Villeroy]

While editing a form, you can toggle between design mode and data mode.

[rokejulianlockhart]

@Villeroy

While editing a form, you can toggle between design mode and data mode.

@Villeroy, how does one do so?

[Villeroy]

menu:Form>Design Mode (on/off) or the corresponding icon on the toolbars “Form Design” and “Form Controls”

[rokejulianlockhart]

How to preview data in form designer in #Base?

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[rokejulianlockhart]

@Villeroy

“Form” menu > “Open in Design Mode” (on/off) or the corresponding icon for “Form Design” and “Form Controls” in the toolbars.

[rokejulianlockhart]

However, perhaps

How to get table control to auto-size to fill visible area in #Base form designer?

menu:Data>Refresh refreshes the import range or any custom UI element linked to that command. The one-line macro ThisComponent.DatabaseRanges.getByName("Import1").refresh() may be assigned to the sheet activate event or something.

could work. As in, I could

0. Add the #Base::tag data connection to a #Calc::tag #spreadsheet.
1. Add some code to refresh every cell every 500 ms.