I suppose everybody but me knew about this but just in case there's someone
else out there who's puzzled how to get an MDI form to work:

By mistake, I re-read the R:Syntax for ENTER USING and discovered that
dropping the USING part of the command allows a MDI form to be shown. I
didn't know that.

I had meant to check the EDIT USING syntax but when I corrected myself I saw
this:

"In R:BASE for Windows "EDIT MDI formname AS alias" (my quotes) can be used
to start a form window that can later be accessed with a SETFOCUS command.
For more information, see the "SETFOCUS" entry."

So I rushed to look at SETFOCUS but there's nothing to help (with edit
using) there...

I started playing with the syntax and ended up with this:

EDIT MDI ChristmasTracks AS ChristmasRecs +
ORDER BY DiscIDNum, TrackNumber +
AT 100, 100, 900, 490 +
CAPTION 'Christmas Records & Tracks' NOHEADER

Which is quite different from the graphic syntax but you'll have guessed by
now that this works.

Anybody like to confirm for me that this is the correct sequence of options?

Please Razzak/RBTI, when R:Syntax next gets updated put an example of this
syntax option in!

Regards,
Alastair.

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