Hi Mike,
I may be mistaken but I believe SCREEN RESTORE only works in the DOS
environment. I remember that I had to get rid of all of mine when I converted
to Windows. You cannot write to the screen in any way I know of except by
the method I stated below. Set a variable and locate it on the form wherever
you want it and as long as you want it. Make the background color of the
variable the same as that of the form or whatever it is located on (could be a
3D box) which effectively hides it as long as you have no border. Then leave
it set to null until you want it to display something. Then just set the variable
to any text you want and do a RECALC VARIABLES from within the EEP.
An EEP does not have to end in .eep. You could have run BLAH IN
BLAH.APX or run BLAH.SSS. I do not know what commands are getting
skipped over so it is hard to say why.
I believe the Conference CD had some stuff on it that showed how to do this
but I do not recall where it is. The NewStuff.zip is probably what beta testers
have access to so if you are not a beta tester you might not be able to get
that. Most of it only runs with the beta version and shows the new
commands.
If you do not understand the variable stuff I have written about then email
me privately and I will send you my phone number. It really is pretty simple.
Best regards,
Mike Young
On Mon, 28 May 2001 17:11:20 -0400, MJS wrote:
>Dear Mike and Manuel,
>
>Is it possible to write something directly on the screen, ie on top of
>an open form, and have it remain there? If so, how do you tell Rbase
>where to put it? I have seen some stuff about pixels, like x1,y1,x2,y2
>but I have not figured out how to use them. Also, where do I found the
>NewStuff.zip? Did it come on the CD from the conference? Also, should
>SCREEN RESTORE OFF work from within a command file called by a
push
>button? Does the command file name have to end in .eep in order for
>Rbase to recognize the SCREEN RESTORE OFF command? It seem like
when I
>am tracing the file some commands get skipped over....I thought because
>they were illegal.
>
>Inquiring minds want to know.........
>
>TIA a million!
>
>Mike
>
>Michael Young wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> I have used variables with the same background color as the form so they
>> only show up when they are not null. In other words, as long as the
variable
>> is null nothing is seen. When something occurs that needs to notify the
user
>> then I set the variable (in the EEP) and recalc variables.
