Charles
Thanks for the reply You solved the mystery of how to edit the code - I wasn't highlighting the RUN C.$$$ before I clicked on EDIT CUSTOM As for running from the application, I don't want to run another RBA, I want to start up an rbase standalone program that will bring up my main menu form OVER the application background. Your solution brings me back to the original question: is there a way to ON START or some other way from an RBA to KEEP the rba on screen as background and RUN a program which then brings up a form as the main menu. David David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:42 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - RE: Questions About Application Designer 1. By going into the action tab of RRBYW4.rba there is an item called: "Action 3 (Display Custom Contact)" click the edit button on the bottom of the rba. There is an item called run c.$$$ click edit custom which is located to top left of the OK button this will show the code. 2. To use another rba file it is required to use the command launch *.rba. I created a RBA application with just the close button in top right corner and added "launch RRBYW4.rba" into the On Start and it worked okay. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David M. Blocker Posted At: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:06 AM Posted To: RB7-L Conversation: [RBG7-L] - Questions About Application Designer Subject: [RBG7-L] - Questions About Application Designer Razzak and friends Thanks for your replies several weeks ago about methods to keep a constant background screen up while running an application. I was pulled away from this project and this issue the past few weeks but I'm back at it again now. This email is looking at what still looks the most promising solution, using an application RBA screen. But I need info on a few basics first to see if can make it work. FIRST: I looked at RRBYW4 but to fully understand how it works I have a question: when I look at the application in the designer, I see how you've built a list of actions, then pulled those actions into a menu structure. But in many cases if I either click on an action in the Main Menu tab and then click on "Edit Selected Item" or click on the + symbol next to an action in the Actions tab, all I see is something like RUN B or RUN B.$$$. Since there are no such standalone programs out there this implies that somewhere in the application itself is the code for these custom programs. How do I find this code and look at it? If I click on an action and click on Edit, all I see if RUN B but there is no code in the "custom" tab on the screen. How do I add more code if I wanted to? SECOND: What I'd like to do is NOT use the application screen as a menu control, but as a background screen. However, it looks like you HAVE to have at least one menu item for the user to click on to run another application, as far as I can tell. I tried creating an ON START ACTION on the Properties screen with: PAUSE 1 USING 'The DBSTART.EEP is now running.' RUN RBASE1.DAT PAUSE 1 USING 'Returned from RBASE1.DAT to DBSTART.EEP' EXIT The RUN command DOES work but these two commands fail in the program RBASE1.DAT: DISCONNECT CONNECT otherdatabasename Both generate error 2557, illegal command in entry / exit procedure. This brings up TWO questions: 1. Where in RRBYW4 is the database actually connected? 2. Does the above mean that an application, like a menu, is wedded to ONE database? That you can't close a database without closing the application? Help and information would be appreciated. David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261
