Jan,
Thanks for the explanation. That helps me understand the MDI function a little better. Since I have never used it, I needed to "see" it explained. This gives me something to work on so my sales people can be happy. Is this also the reason it is difficult for the same person to open the same form multiple times since the focus comes into play? Will having the same form open multiple times by the same person "confuse" the focus so to speak? You can see I have a lot to learn. Jim ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:40 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: running multiple forms Jim, Larry's suggestions are extremely valid. When you issue a form MDI such as EDIT USING customer MDI the code immediately OPENS the form and most importantly THE CODE FOLLOWING CONTINUES TO RUN. So because of this the conditions that Larry mentioned need to be followed. Let's say you have a customer form with a button in called 'Show Invoices' Inside the button we can call the InvoicesList form 2 ways (there are more) 1. EDIT USING InvoicesList WHERE CustID = .vCustID This will bring up the InvoicesList form but it now has focus and you can interact with ONLY this form. You can't go back to the calling form unless you close it. 2. EDIT USING InvoicesList MDI WHERE CustID = .vCustID This brings up the InvoicesList form but you can now interact between either form. The InvoicesList stands by itself. So if you close the Customer form the InvoicesList form will remain until you close it or issue the command to close it by code. Hope this helps and it may be overly simplied. Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:26:08 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: running multiple forms At this time, I do not have RBASE set up running on an application. I know that is not the best procedure since everyone has access to everything on the database. I am unfamiliar with MDI but understand from Larry's response it is built into any code within the forms or application. As you can tell, I am not as familiar with 7.6 as 6.5 (we still use 6.5 while I try to make 7.6 user friendly). If I understand your responses, I would either use MDI within the forms they will use or create buttons within forms that access other forms they may need to use. I use multiple forms myself quite often, including opening multiple copies of the same form, especially when editing the shop information. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:12 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: running multiple forms Jim, You have to query your user's to find out 'multiple forms' are. One way to use this is to use the MDI option of forms. You can have many forms open but my users found that confusing. They have there place. What my users really wanted was to for example goto the customer information while you were elsewhere in the program. This was easily solved by giving them buttons whereever they wanted to do what they wanted. Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:06:57 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - running multiple forms List, We have the latest version of 7.6. I want our people to be able to open multiple forms at the same time. At present, RBASE only allows one form open at one time. Is there a setting I can change to allow an individual to open multiple forms? Jim
