Et al: Should anyone desire to use the Steel Blue theme and not find the below mentioned workarounds acceptable, the CHOOSE windows can be forced to a correct size by padding the TITLE with some acceptable characters (i.e. ----| This is my CHOOSE title |---- ).
Humbly submitted, Steve -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 8:45 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Choose statement w/Steel Blue theme At 01:49 PM 9/19/2008, Steve Martin wrote: >I am experiencing a problem with the CHOOSE statement when >used with the Steel Blue theme. In short, if the list is a >combination of values: (LJS(CustName,20)+(LJS(CustPhone,14))) >the CHOOSE window is not wide enough to display all the data. >Is this a known problem or am I missing something? At 10:05 AM 10/2/2008, Steve Martin wrote: >I haven't heard anything from the folks and tech-land. Steve, et al. FWIW, the characteristics and presentation of referred CHOOSE command when used with "Steel Blue" theme has been the same since the inception and implementation of R:Themes in the first release of R:BASE 7.5 (December 12, 2004). As this is not a show stopper and you also have the option of additional twenty-nine (29) themes to choose from, things like that are not on the priority list of either Razzak himself nor members of R:Dream Team. Remember, there many ways to skin a cat! Having said that, here are a few suggested alternatives: 01. Pick another theme from the list of 29 additional themes. There are 30 different supported themes in R:BASE 7.5, 7.6, and Turbo V-8 for Windows. There are more than 110 in R:BASE eXtreme (ver 9.0). 02. For some reason, if you really have to use your favorite theme, simply create a dynamic TEMPORARY TABLE or VIEW with formatted data as alias names and then use the same CHOOSE command with your favorite themes. 03. Use the eloquent method of defining dynamic CHOOSE in a Variable Form using the Variable Lookup ListBox, or Variable Lookup ListView with your favorite theme. Now you have a cool recyclable variable form with all supported property commands, nice buttons and more .. (This is my favorite method since you can load a large dataset without the limitation of CHOOSE buffer size.) 04. Get yourself or your customer(s) a VIP and/or Corporate Product Support and Maintenance Plan to implement special requests and more ... 05. Wait until the next major release of R:BASE eXtreme (v9). The current version of R:BASE 7.6 was released on October 21, 2006 and four (4) FREE major updates have been released. Each update include all submitted bug fixes as well as requested enhancements. The current version of R:BASE Turbo was released on November 3, 2006 and eighteen (18) FREE major updates have been released. Each update include all submitted bug fixes as well as requested enhancements. This is an exceptional example of our product support and our business! Since the last special update of R:BASE 7.6 & Turbo V-8 (Build: 7.6.4.30919 & Build: 8.0.18.30919), released on Friday, September 19, 2008, all our resources are geared towards the next major release of R:BASE eXtreme (v9). The status of any new submitted request(s) will be at the full discretion of R:BASE Technologies, and each submitted request(s) will be handled accordingly. Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
