That's right Mike - this is the routine behavior, but if there is a way around it - I for one want it. With all the pressure to use Microsoft products, and having them shoved down our throats, why would we use R:Base if it didn't have features superior to Access?
What I really would like are the features of the Application Designer - with the ability to put buttons, etc on the main window itself, not just a drop down list with set fonts, etc. They have done a great job in enhacing the App Designer, but in essence it is still a box on the screen with menus on top or the side - not within the box. Many of the features I liked are not yet implemented in this version yet - for instance the "TIMEOUT" command. I have a phone directory (in 6.5++) that is distributed all around the network that times out after a set number of hours on non-use. Also use it for a complex surgical scheduling program. this allows unattended maintenance at night without users in the system. As long as we keep suporting RBTI, these features will surely be implemented one way or another.....we have seen it happen withi this large beta program! "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/19/2003 04:21:19 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RBASE-L Mailing List) cc: (bcc: Bob Castanaro/BCH) Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: RHide If you have an application in Access, you will notice this is exactly the behavior there as well. When you minimize your top level or starup form, it minimizes within the main window of Access. I know some of you will say when a word doc is minimized it goes to the taskbar and this is true because every document is another instnce of word. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Castanaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:44 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RHide > Karen, et al, > > I have discussed a similar issue many times with Razzak and several support > people back to earlier versions of 6.5. I got hooked on the look and feel > of Razzak's "Form Menus" but the problem is no ability to minimize this. > Now in 6.5, i was told that this is "windows" behavior in the programming > language and could not be changed, but it would be addressed in the new 7.0 > in initial development at that time. In my last discussion about this with > Razzak, he told me that maybe in a future version of 7.0 this could be > addressed, but not in this release. I have to admit that probably for most > people this isn't an issue, and I certainly understand that RBTI has more > important issues to address than this, so I am going to have to wait for > this enhancement. I have submitted this to RDCC, and encourage others to > do the same. I KNOW it can be done - there is hope! For example, there > can be multiple windows open in Lotus notes and you can minimize the whole > shebang. An even better example is an Oracle based scheduling program > (from Tempus Software) has a front end also written in Delphi-7 and it can > be minimized with what looks like a nice form based front end. Maybe > Razzak can speak more eloquently to the issue - it made a lot more sense > to me when explained by him, but of course, I still want the feature! > > >>Karen wrote: > My clients have never liked the fact that, under 6.5++, > that they cannot minimize the main menu form that I design. > Other Windows apps run in smaller windows, so the main menu > always shows in the background. Very unprofessional. Yet > when I used 'RHIDE', they didn't see any indication on the > task bar that RBase was running so they wind up opening up > multiple versions of the app. I know alot of people use > RHIDE -- this doesn't bother your clients?<< > >
