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    control panel hide

    Hi Forum,

    How does one get access to the control panel after it has been hidden?

    Thank you in advance,
    ED

    #2
    RE: control panel hide

    A search of this forum under "controlpanel" produced relevant answers.

    This was the web site link http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/alphaphorum/read.php3?sortby=lastreply&direction=desc&num=4&id=30046&thread=30041

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      #3
      RE: control panel hide

      Ed:

      If you've hidden the thing in an autoexec.scp - don't call that script when you open A5. Just click the A5 icon in Windows Explorer.

      If you're hiding it in your application. Open the program as above and put a button on the your Menu or on one of the forms and make it's action 'controlpanel.show()'

      here's a script I use on a hotspot to toggle it off and on...
      ===========================
      if var->Cpshow="Y" then
      controlpanel.show()
      Cpshow="N"
      trace.writeln(Cpshow)
      spot.refresh()
      else
      if var->Cpshow="N"
      controlpanel.hide()
      Cpshow="Y"
      trace.writeln(Cpshow)
      spot.refresh()
      end if
      end if
      end
      ==========================
      I have a calculated field called 'spot' to display nothing when controlpanel is hidden and an 'O' when it's visible.
      The toggle, simply reads the 'spot' value, set at opening and turns control panel off if it's on and on if it's off.

      You have to refresh the 'spot' field each time to update the screen.

      Ken the Newbie

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        #4
        RE: control panel hide

        Hi ken,

        I have hidden it in the startup menu. But if I put a button on one of the forms, then the user can click it and have access to the control panel which i don't want.

        Thank you,
        ED

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          #5
          RE: control panel hide

          Hi Ken,

          I thought I had the solution for this problem. I created a button on my startup form with controlpanel.show() as the action basic command. Then did not put a frame around it, made it's background and font the same color as that of the form background. Obviously it does not show on the form. Only I know where it is. My problem: it gives me the error message of 'missing or invalid keyword'. Any thoughts on this?

          Thank you in advance,
          ED

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            #6
            RE: control panel hide

            I've done the same thing on an application - created a button that has no border and is same color as background, used the text "version x.x" and password protected the button. Now even if someone accidentally clicks on it, he/she can't get to the controlpanel unless they guess the password!

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              #7
              RE: control panel hide

              To Bob H:

              Great Idea! hadn't thought of it.I'll probably use it on the next app. CLEVER

              Ed:

              Every time I get that 'invalid keyword' dealie, its because something is wrong in the syntax - I look and look and then, smashing my palm to my head I say "DUH"! when I finally SEE it.

              In this instance I'd look to see if you have a comma between the 'controlpanel' and 'show()'; have it typed 'control panel.show(); or contrlpanel.show(); or controlpanel.show)( --- or anything equally STUPID as I do.

              If this is in a number of other successive commands, copy them all and paste them to the 'interactive' tabbed panel and place the cursor at the end of each line, one at a time, and with the cursor in place hit [enter]. The error message will display on the bad line and you can really examine it!

              Been there - done that -- Many Many times.

              Ken the Newbie

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                #8
                RE: control panel hide

                Hi Guys,
                Thank you all for responding. I will check my typos immediately.

                ED

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                  #9
                  RE: control panel hide

                  Hi Ken,

                  U hit the nail on the head, I hit the comma by mistake instead of the decimal point. I corrected it and it is terrific. Now at will I can address the control panel, or lock it out for the user.

                  Thanks again,
                  ED

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                    #10
                    RE: control panel hide

                    I have always been on the lookout for the person who designed the "qwerty" keyboard. I can understand the reasoning but putting the "O" and the "0" next to each other and the "," and the "." next to each others have caused many a computer programmer to consider suicide or political office as an outlet for frustration

                    Bob Sullivan

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                      #11
                      RE: control panel hide

                      Hi Bob,

                      You are my kind of man, I couldn't agree more. I also find that the most used characters (example the e,s,r,l) should be on the home row. It is ludicrous for the ; and the ' to be on the home row. Who is the idiotic moron that decided differently?

                      Befuddled,
                      ED

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                        #12
                        RE: control panel hide

                        Hi Bob,

                        You are my kind of man, I couldn't agree more. I also find that the most used characters (example the e,s,r,l) should be on the home row. It is ludicrous for the ; and the ' to be on the home row. Who is the idiotic moron that decided differently?

                        Befuddled,
                        ED

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                          #13
                          RE: control panel hide

                          Tid Bit of info.

                          In the old days of keys on a typewriter the people were getting so good at typing and the punch keys were jamming up. The "Qwerty" keyboard was laid out to be as slow as possible so the punch keys would not jam.

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                            #14
                            RE: control panel hide

                            Edward -

                            The "moron" was Cristopher Latham Sholes, who designed and
                            patented the typewriter in 1868. As to the QWERTY layout,
                            the following is extracted from the Journal of Law & Economics vol. XXXIII (April 1990)

                            THE FABLE OF THE KEYS*
                            S. J. LIEBOWITZ and STEPHEN E. MARGOLIS

                            " the development and persistence of the current standard keyboard, known as the Universal. or Qwerty, keyboard.
                            The key features of that story are as follows. The operative patent for the typewriter was awarded in 1868 to Christopher Latham Sholes, who continued to develop the machine for several years. Among the problems that Sholes and his associates addressed was the jamming of the type bars when certain combinations of keys were struck in very close succession. As a partial solution to this problem, Sholes arranged his keyboard so that the keys most likely to be struck in close succession were approaching the type point from opposite sides of the machine. Since Qwerty was designed to accomplish this now obsolete mechanical requirement, maximizing speed was not an explicit objective. Some authors even claim that the keyboard is actually configured to minimize speed since decreasing speed would have been one way to avoid the jamming of the typewriter. At the time, however, a two-finger hunt-and-peck method was contemplated, so the keyboard speed envisioned was quite different from touch-typing speeds. "

                            - and we've been struggling with it ever since !!!

                            Lowell :)

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                              #15
                              RE: control panel hide

                              A M E N ! !

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