One could program their main form to save its top/left coordinates to variables. A timer on any child forms can compare those and move the forms to match the main form. That way, each session can be moved to a different location and the child forms will display there too. A little more programming allow the child form to save its coordinates to a nother set of variables and a timer on the main form moves it to match. Done right it is pretty conventient.
Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Belisle Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 12:00 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: MDI forms Dennis, My sales people will agree with you wholeheartedly on your statement (and so do I). Until the time of scoped variables, I will inform them of their use of multiple sessions. BTW, they mention a cascading effect when using multiple sessions. They mention if they have three sessions of the same form open, they have to click through to the right one. Will that always be the case or do I need to add some code somewhere to give them what they want? Jim ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:59 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: MDI forms The ability to manage the same type of job multiple times is critical in a sales situation. Without it, it is impossible to interact with live customers properly. One cannot possibly be forced to finish one task before doing the same task for someone else. The day RBASE would let you open multiple sessions WAS an incredible milestone. The day RBASE implements scoped variables (a variable can be scoped as global, local to a form, or local to a command file, or even local to a block of code) that will be a HUGE step forward. Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Belisle Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:03 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: MDI forms Dan, As I figured. Just thought I would check it out. Once people are used to doing things a certain way, it is hard to take it away. Jim ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Goldberg Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:45 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: MDI forms I put in an enhancement request a while ago to implement global variables and local variables. I would like to do mdi on some of my forms but without having variables local to the form it is not an option. The only workaround is to open another session. Dan Goldberg ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Belisle Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 7:26 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: MDI forms Dennis, ] They now do multiple sessions. Since we did not always use an application in 6.5, through the RBASE explorer they were able to open the form multiple times in one session. Now I do not allow them to use the explorer so I was just wondering about the MDI method. I do see a potential problem with the form being open multiple times in the same session. Jim ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 9:15 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: MDI forms Jim, RBASE has always used global variables. You ran a session of RBASE for each copy of the form. Each session had its own copy of the variables. They were global only in the context of each session. It is the same in 7.6. That said, perhaps there are folks that have done what you want. I wouldn't want to go there. Dennis McGrath ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Belisle Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 8:39 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - MDI forms In the past, my sales people were able to bring up multiple copies of the Order form (in the edit mode) when talking with customers about their orders. In 6.5 they got used to being able to do this, leave the form up, then going back to finish notes etc on the orders. In 7.6 (latest version) I understand we use global variables so can I make it so they can do this even using MDI forms? Jim
