Form titles behaving badly

[Jim Litzie]

Hi,

Posted this a while back but wasn't able to get it resolved.

My app consists of a main menu form utilizing a tree-view and a conditional object with buttons that display depending on the selection of the tree. From the buttons, I run a script that loads a form.

The main-menu also has a menu and toolbar with options for the same items that are on the main menu. If I select to run a form from the main menu, the title in the loaded form is correct (i.e. User Maintenance). If run from the menu or toolbar, the title of the form displays like it's in development mode (i.e. User.dbf : Form View (UserMaint)).

Both the main menu form button and the menu & toolbar option/buttons run exactly the same Xbasic:

script_play_local("RunUserMaint")

I changed it to script_play("RunUserMain"), but it didn't make a difference.

I can post the database if necessary.

Thanks,

Jim

[Tom Cone Jr]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

Jim,

Are you writing the form name to a string variable and then assigning it to the window title for each form as its opening?

-- tom

[Jim Litzie]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

Tom,

No. It's set Captions field, Windows tab, Form properties.

Jim

[Jim Litzie]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

Just curious whether anyone had any thoughts on this issue.

Thanks,

Jim

[Selwyn Rabins]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

if you post a small app that demonstrates the problem it will be helpful.

[Jim Litzie]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

Thanks Selwyn,

Use test/test for login/password. The main form has a toolbar that has two options. You can use the User Maintenance button. From the main-menu, expand Maintenance, select Users and then press the Users button at the bottom of the form. (ANy possibility of a double-click event on the Treeview? :")

Let me know if you have any problems/questions.

Regards,

Jim

[Selwyn Rabins]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

it looks like a subtle bug.
the work around is simple


as the last line in the 'runUserMaint' script, add this command:

varP_UserMaint.window_title = "User Maintenance"

[Selwyn Rabins]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

i spent some more time looking at your app.

as you point out

1. if the form is launched from a button on the mainmenu form, then the title is set correctly.

2. if the form is launched from a toolbar button, then the title is not set correctly.

3. when i created a new form and tried to see if i could repeat the problem, i could not.

4. so, i tried to figure out how your form differed from my new form. i removed your onInit and onActivate code in the target form. it then works correctly. so the problem lies somewhere in either the OnInit or OnAtivate event code.

of course, the work around i mentioned in the previous message will work, but I was curious as to why it was necessary to work around what I would have expected to work in the first place.

[Jim Litzie]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

Selwyn,

Thanks for looking at the issue. I had also tried using the debugger to see if something wasn't being set correctly, but I wasn't able to see anything that could be causing the problem.

Did you see anything in the OnInit or OnActivate code that may be causing the problem?

Jim

[Jim Litzie]

RE: Form titles behaving badly

Hi Selwyn,

I figured out where it's going wrong. The OnInit event of all my forms run a function to initialize a number of things. In that script, another function is run that sets the text on the status bar to the window title. Apparently, the title isn't set yet (I displayed a message box of parentform.window_title during OnInit and it was blank). Accessing the title attribute within the OnInit stage seems to be causing the title to display incorrectly.

The same script to set the status bar is run during the OnActivate stage so I can remove the reference in OnInit.

I'd say this is probably more a timing issue than a bug.

Thanks again,

Jim