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    #1

    alphabet button search gone

    in our app, this has now disappeared as shown in pic 2. If I view the form vaa the Control Panel it's there. Whatz up? Thanks.

    alphabet bttons search name CONTROL Panel view.jpg alphabet bttons search name NO GOOD.jpg.
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    #2
    Re: alphabet button search gone

    Have had exactly the same issue both in V10 and V12 -seems to happen if I open the form from another form with a button but not if I open it directly from the control panel. Can you confirm if you have the same situation.
    Bob
    Bob Whitaker

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      #3
      Re: alphabet button search gone

      I believe it is discussed in this thread.

      https://www.alphasoftware.com/alphaf...bet#post717901
      There can be only one.

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        #4
        Re: alphabet button search gone

        in my app this form (Machine) opens from a button on our Main (opening) form. It worked in v10.5 and we have made NO changes to the app other than using the v12 runtime. Just another problem when a user tries to upgrade from 10.5 to 12.

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          #5
          Re: alphabet button search gone

          Correction I have tried again in V10 and it works fine.
          Have tried the solution given in https://www.alphasoftware.com/alphaf...bet#post717901 and it still doesnt work
          Have another app with an alphabet button search and it works fine in V12
          Really have no idea now !!!!!!!!
          Bob Whitaker

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            #6
            Re: alphabet button search gone

            It appears that some of the runtimes resulted in some of the supercontrols NOT working. I downloaded the latest patch dated jan11_2017 and like magic, I can see the alphabet buttons again. Problem fixed by AlphaSoftware. Thanks group.

            So if you have Alpha Anywhere, version 12.4.3.1 Build 3962 & system addins Build 4772 time to install patches & fix this problem IF you use this feature in your desktop apps.

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              #7
              Re: alphabet button search gone

              The solution in Stan's link worked for me, but it is good to know there is a patch and that the desktop is not being ignored completely...as I near my renewal date.
              Robin

              Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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                #8
                Re: alphabet button search gone

                Yes, I agree 100% as almost our total user base is desktop.....

                I need to complement the Alpha support as they corrected BUG in the runtime very fast once I brought it up. My NY wish was that Alpha would NOT abandon their ROOTS (desktop) totally as they move into the mobile arena.

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                  #9
                  Re: alphabet button search gone

                  They may have fixed this in the Jan 2017 release, but its broken again in 4.3.2 - even when opening the form filtered. In my case, I put the supercontrol inside a conditional object and set the field to use as <current>. However some searches are not A-Z so my condition is supposed to hide the SC in that case. The OnInit has it set so it should show. What I get instead is the wallpaper form bleeding thru the form where the conditional object is. If you click on the area the SC appears but does not render completely , in which case if you click a button to change the search then all is well from then on.

                  The old multi-state button behaved much better!

                  Edit: Ok, so I discovered that if the focus can be taken off the form then brought back, the display corrects itself. So after I use my UDF to call the form from the Menu toolbar, I added minimize & restore after it - with hardly a flicker...

                  vw_frm_1st("MembDetail") 'my UDF to open the form on the first record
                  :membdetail.minimize()
                  xbasic_wait_for_idle(.1)
                  :membdetail.restore()

                  I think the SC may be writing something to the registry which is causing a timing issue. Next I'll try it without any filter in the OnInit event - brb...

                  Hah! that did it. A little modifying to my UDF, and I will have a function I can use for any form that opens with a SC.
                  Last edited by MoGrace; 05-06-2018, 08:15 PM.
                  Robin

                  Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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                    #10
                    Re: alphabet button search gone

                    UDF to open SC forms:

                    Code:
                    FUNCTION SC_Frm AS L(layoutname as C,idx_tag = "" as c)
'DESCRIPTION: Open form with optional specified index on first record	
	DIM frm as P
	frm = obj(layoutname)	
	IF .not. is_object(frm) THEN
		frm = :form.load(layoutname)
	end if	
	if idx_tag <> "" then
	    frm.Index_Set(idx_tag)
	end if	
	frm.minimize()
	frm.show()
	frm.restore()
        :home.activate()   'this is my wallpaper form
	frm.activate()
	frm.fetch_first()
	SC_frm=.t.
END FUNCTION
                    Last edited by MoGrace; 05-06-2018, 10:11 PM.
                    Robin

                    Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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