Download the demo file and give it a whirl... and yes I will be at the Conf.
----- Original Message ----- From: "jan johansen" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:08 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Disappearing Dialog : Will you both be at the conference? : I'd like to see how this was accomplished. : I believe I would find this useful. : : : : -----Original Message----- : From: "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]> : To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) : Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:04:51 -0400 : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Disappearing Dialog : : : My Pleasure.. Now you see DLCall is not so daunting and can substantially : upgrade your RBase toolset... ;-) : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Frank Taylor" <[email protected]> : To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> : Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:41 AM : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Disappearing Dialog : : : Mike, : : Perfect, thanks for the help on and off list.. I got it to work and stay on : top !! : : -- Frank : : Frank Taylor - Information Technology Administrator : F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. : Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL : Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 : email: [email protected] : : : -----Original Message----- : From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Byerley : Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 1:25 PM : To: RBASE-L Mailing List : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Disappearing Dialog : : Frank, : You could use the Win32 MessageBox function: : : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645505%28v=VS.85%29.aspx : : If you use the GetProperty command to get the HANDLE of the form you want : : the message box to stay on top of and pass it to the MessageBox function, it : : will be modal to that form. : : If you look at the parameter information of the function, you can see that : you can specify one, two, or three buttons and capture the result in an : RBase Integer. It is not as daunting as it looks to use it with the DLCall : function. : : : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Frank Taylor" <[email protected]> : To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> : Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:00 AM : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Disappearing Dialog : : : I am having an issue with one of my scanning forms that has a button that : the user will click on and then a Dialog box comes up telling the user to : hit continue when scan is done or cancel. While the dialog form is up if : the user clicks on something else, like email or will open a document, when : they click back on RBase, 50% of the time the Dialog goes behind the form. : I have instructed them to hit Alt-Tab, Alt-Tab to get the dialog to the : front of the screen, but if they do not know the dialog is there they will : start clicking on the form, which causes it to not respond and crash the : application. : : Does anyone have any input on this or a different way of doing what I need : without having dialogs getting lost ? : : I just tried this on V9.1.4.10822 and it would still go behind the form : randomly when I launched another program. : : -- Frank : : Frank Taylor - Information Technology Administrator : F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. : Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL : Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 : email: [email protected] :
