Randy, Controlling the size and the position of the form is a major step forward as far as I'm concerned.
It always seemed odd that whatever size R:Base was - and I like to have it set to something just slightly smaller than full-screen - a form would always fill that screen. For a large form that's no problem but for forms with only a few fields it looked silly to me. Now I could, for example, pull up some data on the R:> screen, leave it there and display a form to one side to do some editing. If I could move from form to form, or report to form, then I could do things so much more neatly. I agree that if you open forms from forms you have to close them in reverse sequence although the "manual" implies otherwise. I haven't found any need to use [Esc] every time though. As far as I know, whichever version of the syntax I use all the normal buttons to exit work as expected. Hopefully, this is all rather academic and v7 will have whatever "problem" there is here sorted out. In the mean time, however, I like being able to place a single form wherever I want it over a background image or other data. Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "randyp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:50 PM Subject: Re: Edit Using & MDI forms > > I still can't jump between open forms, though, a shame but > still trying...Alastair, > > The reason you can't jump between open forms, is > that you don't "Really" have two open forms. You have a > child form open with the parent form in the background. > > Once I made the mistake of using the original form > as the MDI form. The problem there was that I could keep > opening more MDI forms until I had seven or eight open > (stacked up) until memory became full. At that time the > screen would not fully open and it became very slow. > > The forms could be closed in the same consecutive > fashion back to the original parent. At that time things > were back to normal. > > > Randy, thanks for your reply, please see my comments below > yours: > > > > Regards, > > Alastair. > > >That's what I thought, but the syntax I "found" works > direct from R:> or app... > > > EDIT MDI ChristmasTracks AS ChristmasRecs + > > ORDER BY DiscIDNum, TrackNumber + > > AT 100, 100, 900, 490 + > > CAPTION 'Christmas Records & Tracks' NOHEADER > > I tested a similar command in ConComp, the sample database: > > edit MDI employee as 'worker bees' ORDER BY > Emplname,Empfname AT 100,100,900,490 CAPTION 'Christmas > Tracks' NOHEADER > > In order to leave the form you have to use the escape > button. The phrase 'worker bees' has no effect because it > simply renames the original form which was called > 'employee.' > > The same results came from: > EDIT USING employee ...and so forth. It looks like an MDI > form because you control the size. But the real benefit > from MDI is when you use the form as a supplement to another > form. > > I have used such forms to bring up payment options such as > check and check#, date of payment, and various charge card > options from an Order form. The options would be cluttered > if they always appeared on the form. But when you want to > enter payment information, it is very nice to see only > payment options, select those which apply, test the data, > save it, and return to the form it was called from. > > Take care. > > Randy Peterson > > > > ================================================ > 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/
