Randy I think yhou've hit on a key point - obvioulsy R:Base can do it - you've proved it!
NOW what we have to do is ask for a way to take that same capability and allow a developer to set that up for users in an app! Are you a 7.0 tester? If so, ASK for it! If not, I will! David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "randyp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: Re: Edit Using & MDI forms > Alastair, > > Good points. Forms are now very much more exciting > than I remember in my old DOS applications. I like the nice > fonts, the buttons, eeps, colors and all the rest. > > My friend Rich Starkey is a Windows whiz. He can > put every table up on the screen at the same time. He uses > this feature to see every table affected by a form and > ensure that all the updates were made correctly. The secret > is to open them from the object manager, then change to the > size you want, move it, and open another. > > All of the 'windows' are hot -- in other words, you > point to one and can edit or whatever. > > So I tried the same thing in ConComp by going to the > object manager and selecting the Forms tab. I highlighted > employee, pressed run and sized it smaller. Then I > highlighted Product and pressed run and sized it smaller, > and moved it so it did not cover the previous table. Now I > have two forms with a smaller size, on the screen at the > same time. > > I can click on Employee Information and use F8 to > see the next employees, and F7 to go back. Then if I click > on product information, I can use the Next Row and Previous > Row buttons to see other products. The key is that I do not > have to close either form in order for the other to work. > > I decide to press my luck and run the product form > again, and size it smaller. Now I have two identical forms > on my screen. By clicking from one to the other, I can see > two different products at the same time. Each form works > independently. And you can click from one to the other > without closing anything. Incidentally I was not able to > open and size a report -- it seems to take the whole screen. > > Right now I have four tables and three forms showing > on my screen. I simply click on the form or table and it is > live. > > The question is whether this can be done with > program commands, or whether it can only be accomplished > using the object manager. > > Now from your question and Rich Starkey I have > learned another way to keep a lot of useful information and > forms in front of me at the same time. As a developer, this > will give you the function you wanted. But I don't know how > to make it available to a user from a program. If you issue > the command EDIT USING product AT 0,0,600,500 a nice small > form will appear on screen. But that command has to be > completed -- closed, before the next command is run. > Calling a second form using the MDI feature will put them > both up, but not click on one, then the other whenever, > live. > > If you figure out how to do it, I'm sure we would > all like to see how. [If we could just automate the > commands used by the Object Manager ...] > > Take care, > > Randy Peterson > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 4:00 AM > Subject: Re: Edit Using & MDI forms > > > > 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. > > > > ================================================ > 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/
