Tom, It sounds like your only reason for your method is the ability to have multiple openings of the same "button". Look at converting the code in those buttons to MDI. They will run individually and could have multiple openings.
Realize that MDI code continues and doesn't stop. What I mean to say, if your original code said "EDIT USING blahblahform" your code stopped until you exited your form. Using MDI if you said "EDIT USING blahblahform MDI" (i don't think the syntax is correct) any code after your "EDIT USING" continues, so you have to really think about what you want. Jan -----Original Message----- From: TOM HART <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 18:20:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Help with Getproperty I guess that is my question, how can I do it better. Tom Hart From: jan johansen <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 6:10 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Help with Getproperty Tom, No you explained it well. Beauty of R:BASE is you get to do what you want. You want to have individual exe's. Go for it. It's just not the way I would do it. Jan -----Original Message----- From: TOM HART <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:51:10 -0800 (PST) Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Help with Getproperty I guess I have not explained The menu I use now has icons to do different thing Button1 compiled exe that connect database and runs code Button2 compiled exe that connects database and runs different code Currently I compile each seperate file and use launch, what I like about this is I might have 2-8 seperate instances of one button, which then means from a launched file I can reduce to taskbar. Using the custom_form_action also only allows one instance. I just am confused with getproperty but thought I could pass parameters, which maybe I can but just don't know how. Tom Hart From: Tom Frederick <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 9:53 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Help with Getproperty <!--{cke_protected}{C}%3C!%2D%2D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20%20%0A%20filtered%20%20%7Bfont-family%3ACalibri%3Bpanose-1%3A2%2015%205%202%202%202%204%203%202%204%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20filtered%20%20%7Bfont-family%3ATahoma%3Bpanose-1%3A2%2011%206%204%203%205%204%204%202%204%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20%20%0A%20p.yiv407975062MsoNormal%2C%20%23yiv407975062%20%20%0Ali.yiv407975062MsoNormal%2C%20%23yiv407975062%20%20div.yiv407975062MsoNormal%0A%09%7Bmargin%3A0in%3Bmargin-bottom%3A.0001pt%3Bfont-size%3A12.0pt%3Bfont-family%3A%22Times%20New%20%0ARoman%22%2C%20%22serif%22%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20a%3Alink%2C%20%23yiv407975062%20%20span.yiv407975062MsoHyperlink%0A%09%7Bcolor%3Ablue%3Btext-decoration%3Aunderline%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20a%3Avisited%2C%20%23yiv407975062%20%20%0Aspan.yiv407975062MsoHyperlinkFollowed%0A%09%7Bcolor%3Apurple%3Btext-decoration%3Aunderline%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20span.yiv407975062EmailStyle17%0A%09%7Bfont-family%3A%22Calibri%22%2C%20%22sans-serif%22%3Bcolor%3A%231F497D%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20.yiv407975062MsoChpDefault%0A%09%7Bfont-size%3A10.0pt%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20filtered%20%20%7Bmargin%3A1.0in%201.0in%201.0in%201.0in%3B%7D%0A%23yiv407975062%20%20div.yiv407975062WordSection1%0A%09%7B%7D%0A%2D%2D%3E--> Tom, We do all that through one exe. The database is the same for everyone and there is a common sign in screen, but there are 6 different menus that get assigned based on a user’s job. Admin menu allows everything and is the only menu that assigns access levels to users. A manager may only see customer and sales choices and a part of employees. HR will see all of employee, but nothing else. It all gets assigned at startup. The computers themselves have assigned access so only certain menus will come up for privacy and confidentiality reasons. Works well. Tom Frederick President/CEO Elm City Center 1314 W Walnut Jacksonville, IL 62650 O-217-245-9504 F-217-245-2350 [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf OfTOM HART Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:10 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Help with Getproperty I have never used the Getproperty STARTUPPARAMSTR in an app and have looked at the responses and R:docs. This is a very simplistic example of what I want to do in an externalform Button1(employee info) currently use a compiled Employee.exe which starts program and run eep to go to employee info Button2(customer info) compiled Customer.exe and uses completely different eep Button3(sales info) compiled Sales.exe, etc and more buttons and so on This is what I currently use and have to re-compile each one on every update. What I would like to do is have the one exe that sets all my configure info, then run the eep, outside of the exe file I am lost on this subject. Tom Hart
