Dear Alastair, The following code works for me: -- to bring up the form to enter note information ENTER USING enterNote MDI AT 375,290,740,520 AS noteEntry
-- to move the cursor to the field noteEntry in the noteForm SETFOCUS noteEntry One thing to remember is that in order to test or run an MDI form, you have to do it from ANOTHER form. The above code is from something I call entNotes.eep. It is called from a button on a form which allows entry of a variety of other information. The MDI option opens a new form while you are already running a form. In order to test MDI forms, I created a blank form with only one button. Use the button to run your program. Here it would run a program called something like: entNotes.eep. And entNotes.eep can be something simple like, 'ENTER USING enterNote MDI AT 375,290,740,520 AS noteEntry.' I guess from your message that you felt the syntax given was not accurate. When used as explained above, it should work as documented. Try it again, and let me know how it works. Randy Peterson PS. If you put the 'Enter USING enterNote MDI ...' in a case statement, I don't think it works. The form flashes to the screen and returns. But if you put a command in the case statement like "RUN entNotes.eep" which contains the command you would have put in the case statement, it works... go figure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "R:Base ListServer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:18 AM Subject: Edit Using & MDI forms > 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. > > ---------------------------------- > A D B Burr, > St. Albans, UK. > ---------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------- > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
