Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-21 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 2/20/2013 5:47 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2013-02-20: On 2/20/2013 10:01 AM, Fred Taylor wrote: Yes, instanciation order is what I meant by create order.As far as the SHOW WINDOW command, your using the file name, you need to use the form.Name

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-21 Thread Tracy Pearson
MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2013-02-21: On 2/20/2013 5:47 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: Mike, LINKED allows you have a local variable of the form. When you are finished, you release the local variable and it will release the form. A progress bar is the only reason I come up with for

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-21 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 2/21/2013 4:19 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: Mike, And that works. Your form is Modal. In the Command Window run a report with DO FORM {form file name} NAME mytest LINKED It should open. Now go back to the Command Window and type: RELEASE mytest The form should close. Ah, I re-read

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
[mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:50 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... Did you create them in the proper order? That's the only thing I can think of. Fred On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Tracy Pearson
Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Hey Fred - not sure what you meant by this. Each Form was created separately - so, it doesn't seem to make sense about creating them in any particular order! Or am I missing a point here? Am going to Look into Tracy's suggestion in 2 minutes... -K-

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt @ VR-FX Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:36 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... Guys - it already IS set to that way. As it makes sense already - but, it still doesn't work. -K- On 2/19/2013 5:48

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:17 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Hey Fred - not sure what you meant by this. Each Form was created separately

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-19: .and I don't mean MS Windows. ...I've got a Main screen/Form... Kurt, Is the first form the active and set as a Top-Level form? The second forms Top and Left will be relative to the window it exists in. Short

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Fred Taylor
- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:46 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-19: .and I don't mean MS Windows. ...I've got a Main screen/Form

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:01 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... Yes, instanciation order is what I meant by create order.As far as the SHOW WINDOW command, your using the file

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:10 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... OK - understood re:Show Window command changes - am attempting that right now to see if it can work for me

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Tracy Pearson
Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: OK - understood re:Show Window command changes - am attempting that right now to see if it can work for me. Normally I need to DO a Form. So - do I still DO the Form - then run the Show Window command WITHIN the Activate method of the 2nd Form that is called?

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
:36 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: OK - understood re:Show Window command changes - am attempting that right now to see if it can work for me. Normally I need to DO a Form. So - do I still DO the Form - then run the Show Window

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Tracy Pearson
Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Hey Tracy - thanks for this extensive reply. Do I have to use Show Window - well, I was just doing it to try and follow the suggestion by Fred - which I didn't originally use. At this point, I've been open to trying anything - just to try and get things to work.

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:52 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Hey Tracy - thanks for this extensive reply. Do I have to use Show Window - well, I

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Fred Taylor
: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:52 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Hey Tracy - thanks for this extensive reply. Do I have to use Show Window - well

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:28 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... Ok, I think I see what the problem is now. In order for the second form to be limited to and show up in your first form, the DO FORM second has to be issued by the first

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Fred Taylor
Appreciated!!! -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:52 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Hey Tracy

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
again, -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:56 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... Add a property to your second form, named oCallingForm. In the Load

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Tracy Pearson
Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Thank you VERY Much for this Very interesting suggestion! Seems like there should be a more direct route to accessing the properties of the other Form - by, I shouldn't baulk at it - since, if you suggestion works - then I should just Go With It! So - I'm

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Fred Taylor
[mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:56 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... Add a property to your second form, named oCallingForm. In the Load of your second form, you should be able to set

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
in the back of my mind. -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:22 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Kurt wrote on 2013-02-20: Thank you VERY Much

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
Hey Fred - yeah, I liked this suggestion of your's, and it worked famously! Thanks again!!! Now its time to hunker down and start plowing thru some more serious coding... -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent:

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Richard Kaye
you release your form as it is a great way to crash your application with a C5 memory error. -- rk -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:44 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:51 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Just to show that there's more than one way to skin a Fox, I prefer to pass an object reference in to the form INIT, as opposed to the form LOAD and store that reference to a form property. Just make

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Fred Taylor
-Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:44 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Hey Fred - yeah, I liked this suggestion of your's, and it worked famously! Thanks again!!! Now

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Fred Taylor
will be working on. -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Richard Kaye Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:51 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: The Trouble w/Windows... Just to show that there's more than one way

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Kurt
So - I should make a new Method - and call it the Butler_Routine! :-) -K- -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:02 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: The Trouble w/Windows... While

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 2/20/2013 10:01 AM, Fred Taylor wrote: Yes, instanciation order is what I meant by create order.As far as the SHOW WINDOW command, your using the file name, you need to use the form.Name property content, whatever that is. You probably don't have a variable reference to the form, and

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-20 Thread Tracy Pearson
MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2013-02-20: On 2/20/2013 10:01 AM, Fred Taylor wrote: Yes, instanciation order is what I meant by create order.As far as the SHOW WINDOW command, your using the file name, you need to use the form.Name property content, whatever that is. You

RE: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-19 Thread Tracy Pearson
Kurt wrote on 2013-02-19: .and I don't mean MS Windows. I've got a Main screen/Form. And, I have that Form calling another Form - which I want to pop-up to display info. But, I want to control the placement of that 2nd Form - so it appears near the bottom of the 1st Form. 1st

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-19 Thread Fred Taylor
Tracy's right, you have to have your first form .ShowWindow set as 2- As Top-Level Form, and your second form .ShowWindow set as 1- In Top-Level Form. Fred On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Kurt k...@isssusa.com wrote: .and I don't mean MS Windows. I've got a Main screen/Form. And, I have

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-19 Thread Kurt @ VR-FX
Guys - it already IS set to that way. As it makes sense already - but, it still doesn't work. -K- On 2/19/2013 5:48 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: Tracy's right, you have to have your first form .ShowWindow set as 2- As Top-Level Form, and your second form .ShowWindow set as 1- In Top-Level Form.

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-19 Thread Fred Taylor
Did you create them in the proper order? That's the only thing I can think of. Fred On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net wrote: Guys - it already IS set to that way. As it makes sense already - but, it still doesn't work. -K- On 2/19/2013 5:48 PM, Fred

Re: The Trouble w/Windows...

2013-02-19 Thread Tracy Pearson
Fred Taylor fbtay...@gmail.com wrote: Did you create them in the proper order? That's the only thing I can think of. Fred On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net wrote: Guys - it already IS set to that way. As it makes sense already - but, it still doesn't work.