Wrong Form Opens

[forskare]

I have form1 built on a 2 table set. I open form2, which is built on the child table. I use variables on a button to pass along the camper_id, lastname, mi and firstname fields to form2 which opens ready to enter a new record. This has worked fine for over a month.

Now, when I click the button, it opens a 2nd instance of form1 in a 'downsized' view. When I click the CLOSE button, the 2nd instance of form1 closes and form2 opens.

I have checked my code on the button and there is absolutely no reference to form1 in it. I also checked the events for form1 and there is absolutely no reference to form1 in either of the 2 events of form1 that have code. The CanExit event has cancel() and the OnInit event has Show All Records and code to get the current record count. Hardly anything that says to open a 2nd instance of form1.

Any suggestions what's causing form1 to open the 2nd time?

Thanks much,

kenn

[forskare]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

I found the problem but that's just as puzzeling. I had placed a user object on the top of form2 and as soon as I deleted it, the button on form1 to open form2 works as advertised. Haven't a clue why the user object on form2 caused this, but, it did.

Wondering if anyone else has experienced weird happenings with user objects?

Thanks,

kenn

[Steve Dentler]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

Could be a lot of things, Ken. Perhaps form1 is opened as a dialog using code like "form.show(), "form.activate()" which will cause form1 to open, take focus, and re-activate after it appeared to have closed. Somewhere, my guess is that you've got a bad piece of code that has not fully completed.

[forskare]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

Steve,

Form1 opens from the main menu using the Genie to create the button. Form2 opens with a custom created button created on form1 using variables to pass values to form2.

"Perhaps form1 is opened as a dialog using code like "form.show(), "form.activate()" which will cause form1 to open, take focus, and re-activate after it appeared to have closed."

The method I'm using is method 2 in Tom Cone's Passing Values which he posted on the Code Archieve. This is the code on the button in the example:
if is_object("Items2") then
Items2.new_record() ' begin new record

' now assign OrdNum value to that record
Items2:OrdNum.value = parentform:Ordnum.value

' now assign OrdNum value to the local var on
' the called form
Items2:LocalOrdNum.value = parentform:Ordnum.value

' now display the called form
Items2.show()
Items2.activate()

else
Form.load("Items2")
Items2.new_record() 'begin new record

' now assign OrdNum value to that record
Items2:OrdNum.value = parentform:Ordnum.value

' now assign OrdNum value to the local var on
' the called form
Items2:LocalOrdNum.value = parentform:Ordnum.value

' now display the called form
Items2.show()
Items2.activate()
end if

Are you saying this code will cause form1 to open twice, even though it's calling form2? If so, that's what was happening.

Thanks,

kenn

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

If you have cancel() on the CanExit event of form1, then it won't close , will it?

[forskare]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

Yes, it will close. I put than on as a suggestion by someone from this board that it was needed to aid in the menu's or the -, [] and X. Something like that. Don't know if that makes sense or not.

Thanks,

kenn

[forskare]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

Just as puzzeling is that I tried using the user object again and this time met another weird problem. Ran into an illegal operation message until I got rid of the user object. So, I simply replaced it with a button and hid it. So far, so good.

Thanks,

kenn

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

What is your USER object doing? Do you have any OnInit or OnDraw actions defined for the USER object?

[forskare]

RE: Wrong Form Opens

What is your USER object doing?

I placed the user object at the top of the form and sued it as a tab stop so that when the user tabs from the last field at the bottom of the form, focus is moved to the top of the form to bring the top half of the form into view and then automatically moves the focus to the 'Save' button.

Button1.activate() was placed in the OnExit event but I see I could/should place it on the OnInit event. Still, that should not have been the cause of the problems.

Do you have any OnInit or OnDraw actions defined for the USER object?

No, Was only using it as described above.

Thanks,

kenn