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    Main Menu "delayed"

    When I start the application, my form "Main Menu" does not show up on the forms window until I click something else. There seems to be a delay somewhere. This affects my autoexec file since it attempts to show the main menu on startup and apparently can't find it immediately. Any ideas on what could cause this. None of my other applications do this.
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    RE: Main Menu

    Howard,
    Are you using Windows 98 or ME? They seem to require the click in some circumstances.

    I have a lengthy autoexec which ends with the following:
    menupntr = obj(":MainMenu")
    if is_object(menupntr)
    menupntr.restore()
    else
    menupntr = :form.load("MainMenu")
    end if
    menupntr.show()
    menupntr:button2.activate()

    This seems to be pretty snappy.

    Are you doing anything else in your autoexec?
    Does the HaltScript appear?
    Pat Bremkamp
    MindKicks Consulting

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      #3
      RE: Main Menu

      Here's something that might be related:

      I had an app in which the I loaded the Main Menu, and then displayed a prompt (ui_get_text) for the user's ID. Occasionally, the user would have to click somewhere to give the prompt focus.

      I solved the problem by using a trick by Cal Locklin. Here's the relevant part of the script:

      sys_send_keys("{esc}")
      ui_get_text("USER ID","Enter ID")

      Note the the ESC is BEFORE, not after, the prompt.

      I don't know if something like this would help you, but at least it could be useful if you use any prompts.

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        #4
        RE: Main Menu

        When the script gets to menupntr = :form.load("Main Menu") I get an "object method error. A parameter may be incorrect or misspelled". I am using Windows ME and at this point I have no other lines in my autoexec script.

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          RE: Main Menu

          I thought I might be on to something by using the ESC. When I put the esc line first in the script, when the program started the main menu icon showed in the control panel BUT the commands to show the main menu did not do anything. After several tries, the main menu icon no longer showed up until maybe 15 seconds of waiting (without clicking anything) Very strange.

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            #6
            RE: Main Menu

            Howard, others have wondered if the A5halt.exe program is involved. Perhaps it's receiving focus at startup, instead of your opening form? You might try renaming it (temporarily) to see if that makes a difference.

            -- tom

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              #7
              RE: Main Menu

              Tom, renaming a5halt.exe did not do a bit of good, BUT, I think I have a clue to the solution. I have been adding tables to my application and they were on a zip drive. I thought that they would automatically be transferred to the directory where my main application resides. I must have been mistaken because when I call up the application I see the light on the zip drive come on. It seems like my application may be "split" between the zip and the hard drives. Apparently it takes some extra time for the main menu to be read, because all I have to do is wait 15 or 20 seconds and the icon magically appears.

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