Simple Question about forms, but stumped

[filepro]

I am working with a form where I run a button script to open another form on top of the form and want to lock in focus on the form and not allow them to switch to any other portion of the program. In MS Access you just turn on Modal and Popup and you are locked on the form while it is open

Can you do this in A5. I thougth I saw this in all the videos that i watched, but cant remember. I did not see any options in the form properties.

Keith Ermdan

[Raymond Lyons]

Re: Simple Question about forms, but stumped

See if opening the 2nd form as a dialog form (modal) doesn't do what you want. If you are using Action Scripting to open the form, opening as a Dialog should one of the options. By the way, this also gives lots of other things you can do--check the documentation.

Raymond Lyons

[Keith Hubert]

Re: Simple Question about forms, but stumped

Hi Keith,

If the second form is to be used only as a pop up, then save it as dialog, as well as Raymond's suggestion.

[natn1251]

Re: Simple Question about forms, but stumped

I am working with a form where I run a button script to open another form on top of the form and want to lock in focus on the form and not allow them to switch to any other portion of the program. In MS Access you just turn on Modal and Popup and you are locked on the form while it is open

Can you do this in A5. I thougth I saw this in all the videos that i watched, but cant remember. I did not see any options in the form properties.

Keith Ermdan

Here is an example.

form.load("SetupWizard","dialog","","center","middle")
SetupWizard.Activate()
SetupWizard.Show()
form.close()

Notice I end the code with form.close(). You must do this from the calling routine because when you close a dialog form it does not actually close; it is hidden only and stays in memory. The form.close() on the calling script will actually close the form.

[Raymond Lyons]

Re: Simple Question about forms, but stumped

Filepro, I am not quite sure exactly what you want here, but as I suggested in my post above, I really think you should peruse the documentation to learn all the ins and outs of opening forms. For example, simply opening a form via Action Scripting as a Dialog would produce the following code:

DIM Shared varP_RW_Params_frm as P
DIM layout_name as c 
layout_name = "RW Params frm"
varP_RW_Params_frm = :Form.view(layout_name,"dialog")

'After the user closes the dialog form, the form remains in memory and the script 					
'continues with the next command.																	
																									
'You can insert any code here that you want to execute before the dialog form (which is now			
'hidden) is removed from memory with the .close() command. 											
'The code that you insert here can refer to the form using the pointer variable, varP_RW_Params_frm	

if is_object(varP_RW_Params_frm) = .t. then 																									
	varP_RW_Params_frm.close()
end if

Note that closing the dialog does not actually remove it from memory, so you have do that in the calling action, and before doing that your script could do other things too, as noted in the example above.

The above example uses Form.View() but as Natn1252 noted, there is also Form.Load() in which the form has to be activated (which is not necessary for Form.View()). But with Form.Load() an optional parameter also provides for either a Dialog or a Popup option:

For Form.Load(), one optional parameter gives you both Dialog and Popup options:
"Popup" = Open the form as a popup window.
"Dialog"= Open the form as a modal dialog box.

If a form is opened using the "Popup" style, the following rules apply:
Xbasic does not pause, as it does in the case of "Dialog" style.
The window can be moved outside of the Alpha Five frame.
Alpha Five menus are not active (just like "Dialog" style).
The window is not modal. (unlike "Dialog" style).
The window is always on top of all other Alpha Five windows.

There is much more to learn on this subject, depending on what you need/want to do. Again, studying the documentation, as dense as that sometimes is, would be good advice.

Raymond Lyons

[DaveM]

Re: Simple Question about forms, but stumped

in the to be opened form
set the left and top to inches - then .3 and .3
in the width and height, set as apporopriate
set sizeable ONLY and give a form name.

Be sure the underlying form is on activate - set to maximize or whatever you need.

This is not setting anything to modal or any other settings. Mine are set to modeless and continue to be. see pic

<sorry, it will not upload>

[DaveM]

Re: Simple Question about forms, but stumped