I have a compiled app. My menu is an external form file. They open various forms from the menu.
One form I have is to print various labels required. They check the labels they need to print and hit the print button in the form. It will popup and ask them questions(dialog) and/or instructions(pause) before each of the labels generate. Sometimes the pause or dialog gets lost behind the form. They think the compiled app is hung and ends task on it. So basically I have a dialog or pause on top of a form that is on top of the menu. No MDI. I am thinking of making a variable message box with a button on the form itself. It will ask them the questions and instructions in that box instead of using dialog/pause commands. Dan Goldberg From: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:21 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: pause dialog boxes going behind form So then is the biggest problem with dialogs and pauses that run from within a form? I suppose it's possible to have those things asked in the form itself (although more difficult to enforce the modal quality of a dialog). But if your whole application is run from a main menu form, and the form is up in the background at all times then every single pause and dialog box run "outside" of another form would still be inside the main menu form. So that means that all dialog and pause would be subject to the problem, right? (Did that make sense to everyone?) Karen In a message dated 5/3/2012 9:13:38 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: In this particular form I ask the user many questions. I am going to embed them in the form as much as possible to minimize the pause and dialog boxes. Dan Goldberg
