I've explained it several times. Are you saying you can get around database locking?
Cheers Ian -----Original Message----- From: JLB [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 25 June 2012 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors I run two Legacy files in split-screen and I don't understand your problem. JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 6/24/2012 7:14 PM, Ian GARDENER wrote: > No I’ve made it clear a few times that the issue is running > different legacy files in each screen. > > Cheers > > Ian > > *From:*Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, 25 June 2012 9:57 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors > > Ian, > > I think we must be talking at cross purposes here, I was under the > impression that you wanted the same DB opened twice. Using the split > screen you can copy/paste across. You can only do it one field at a time. > > Ron Ferguson > > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > *From:*Ian GARDENER <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Sent:*Monday, June 25, 2012 12:22 AM > > *To:*[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Subject:*RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors > > Hi, > > Agreed. > > However I can run 2 instances of ms access simultaneously with > different databases/files no worries at all, it’s a classic use of > db. This is blocked in the Legacy front end. > > Cheers > > Ian > > *From:*Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:06 PM > *To:* [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors > > Ian, > > Legacy does not use the windows clipboard, but its own, which is why > you can only copy/paste into the same database. > > Yes Legacy is Access based. > > Actually in this respect, it does not matter that Legacy is Access > based as the restrictions are the same for all well constructed databases. > They are there to stop the users corrupting their own files, and > should be welcomed. > > Ron Ferguson > > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > *From:*Ian GARDENER <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Sent:*Sunday, June 24, 2012 12:34 PM > > *To:*[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > *Subject:*RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors > > Hi, > > No matter what i do, I cannot cut and paste from one file to another. > I can copy/paste within the same file but not using two different files. > Specifically: > > On the let screen/split I have myself open in the new database, on the > right screen I have myself open in the old database. > > In the right screen I open up details, open an event, then copy it to > the clipboard. I then close that screen (have to to proceed), click on > the left database and the clipboard in now empty. It doesn’t matter > wether I save or cancel in the old database, the result applies, > “THE EVENT CLIPBOARD IS EMPTYâ€. > > So I set up two new databases in split screen and tried the same > thing, same result. The clipboard does not hold data once I click on > the different file in the other screen. Someone mentioned access (is > Legacy accessdb based?). So in access database I tried essentially the > same thing and same result. > > Ian G > > *From:*Carl Cox [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Sunday, 24 June 2012 10:36 AM > *To:* [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy split screen view on 2 monitors > > <<This works if both splits are open to the same file (regardless of > individual) but I cannot get it to work when each split is open to a > different file L > > Ian>> > > We must be talking past each other, because I often use this method > within a single file and between different files in a split screen. > The only requirement is that you "save" the individual information as > it currently is, regardless of when it was entered. That saved > information becomes a template from which you can use any piece of > information you wish, in any database. I don't know if Legacy > remembers the last one saved when it is closed - it very well could. I > have 2 files that I record current happenings in, identically in both, > and I call up split screen, enter the personal information in one > database, save it, then go to the other database and copy each newly > entered information by clicking on the field name. Is that how you are trying > to use this method? > > Carl > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2437/5091 - Release Date: > 06/24/12 > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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