Final job before I leave this gig after 24 years...
This shown how little code I've done in the last x years...
I've got a menu that calls a form ivied: DO FORM weekref.scx
However when it runs as an executable yes it calls the form but then hands control straight back to the menu so you can't actually do anything with the form.
What is the stupidly obvious thing I'm not doing please???
TIA
Adam.
Make it a modal form ? Missing read events ?
A+ jml
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Final job before I leave this gig after 24 years...
This shown how little code I've done in the last x years...
I've got a menu that calls a form ivied: DO FORM weekref.scx
However when it runs as an executable yes it calls the form but then hands control straight back to the menu so you can't actually do anything with the form.
What is the stupidly obvious thing I'm not doing please???
TIA
Adam.
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Hi Jean,
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well it's on VFP 6).. ________________________________________ From: ProFox [profox-bounces@leafe.com] on behalf of Jean Laeremans [laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com] Sent: 02 November 2016 13:36 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Stupid form question
Make it a modal form ? Missing read events ?
A+ jml
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Final job before I leave this gig after 24 years...
This shown how little code I've done in the last x years...
I've got a menu that calls a form ivied: DO FORM weekref.scx
However when it runs as an executable yes it calls the form but then hands control straight back to the menu so you can't actually do anything with the form.
What is the stupidly obvious thing I'm not doing please???
TIA
Adam.
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Form properties -> windowType = 1 modal
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Hi Jean,
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well it's on VFP 6).. ________________________________________ From: ProFox [profox-bounces@leafe.com] on behalf of Jean Laeremans [ laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com] Sent: 02 November 2016 13:36 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Stupid form question
Make it a modal form ? Missing read events ?
A+ jml
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Final job before I leave this gig after 24 years...
This shown how little code I've done in the last x years...
I've got a menu that calls a form ivied: DO FORM weekref.scx
However when it runs as an executable yes it calls the form but then
hands
control straight back to the menu so you can't actually do anything with the form.
What is the stupidly obvious thing I'm not doing please???
TIA
Adam.
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Thanks Jean, sorted.....
________________________________________ From: ProFox [profox-bounces@leafe.com] on behalf of Jean Laeremans [laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com] Sent: 02 November 2016 14:06 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Stupid form question
Form properties -> windowType = 1 modal
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Hi Jean,
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well it's on VFP 6).. ________________________________________ From: ProFox [profox-bounces@leafe.com] on behalf of Jean Laeremans [ laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com] Sent: 02 November 2016 13:36 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Stupid form question
Make it a modal form ? Missing read events ?
A+ jml
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Final job before I leave this gig after 24 years...
This shown how little code I've done in the last x years...
I've got a menu that calls a form ivied: DO FORM weekref.scx
However when it runs as an executable yes it calls the form but then
hands
control straight back to the menu so you can't actually do anything with the form.
What is the stupidly obvious thing I'm not doing please???
TIA
Adam.
[excessive quoting removed by server]
np
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Thanks Jean, sorted.....
From: ProFox [profox-bounces@leafe.com] on behalf of Jean Laeremans [ laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com] Sent: 02 November 2016 14:06 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Stupid form question
Form properties -> windowType = 1 modal
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Hi Jean,
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well
it's
on VFP 6).. ________________________________________ From: ProFox [profox-bounces@leafe.com] on behalf of Jean Laeremans [ laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com] Sent: 02 November 2016 13:36 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Stupid form question
Make it a modal form ? Missing read events ?
A+ jml
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Adam Buckland <
Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com>
wrote:
Final job before I leave this gig after 24 years...
This shown how little code I've done in the last x years...
I've got a menu that calls a form ivied: DO FORM weekref.scx
However when it runs as an executable yes it calls the form but then
hands
control straight back to the menu so you can't actually do anything
with
the form.
What is the stupidly obvious thing I'm not doing please???
TIA
Adam.
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Have you all ever wondered why the default value for this property was not "Modal"? :)
I worked with modal forms 99% of the time in all my previous VFP jobs.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well it's on VFP 6)..
Modal is considered, by me, to be old-school and undesirable. People expect to have several forms open on their worksurface and interact between them. Just my opinion.
Mike
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Have you all ever wondered why the default value for this property was not "Modal"? :)
I worked with modal forms 99% of the time in all my previous VFP jobs.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well it's on VFP 6)..
I cannot let my users click everywhere! Freedom means extra debugging and hence workload.
Did you notice that those black rectangles around when using some web functions? They are trying to make your browser modal.:)
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Mike Copeland mike@ggisoft.com wrote:
Modal is considered, by me, to be old-school and undesirable. People expect to have several forms open on their worksurface and interact between them. Just my opinion.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Man-wai Chang changmw@gmail.com wrote:
Have you all ever wondered why the default value for this property was not "Modal"? :)
For the same reason it is "Microsoft Windows" and not "Microsoft Window" -- at least until Windows Metro.
Weird. Modal is the rare exception in all my apps. You sound so 80ties. Lol
On 3 Nov 2016 5:44 am, "Man-wai Chang" changmw@gmail.com wrote:
Have you all ever wondered why the default value for this property was not "Modal"? :)
I worked with modal forms 99% of the time in all my previous VFP jobs.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Adam Buckland Adam.Buckland@eurohill.com wrote:
Stupid question #2 ... how do I make it modal... (Shame of it as well
it's on VFP 6)..
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Jean Laeremans laeremans.jeanmarie@gmail.com wrote:
Weird. Modal is the rare exception in all my apps. You sound so 80ties. Lol
No, Man-wei has a point, I think. As do you. The key is to create a consistent design that makes the users productive, whatever it takes.
Windows is a horrible mess of desktop and windowing metaphors. MDI, the Multiple Document Interface, let people do things like tile all the windows they had open. I don't think anyone really did that until MS made Tiles the interface of the Metro. You could stack all of your windows, although no one really knows why.
In the vast majority of the apps I've delivered, I show the client things like the ability to look at two orders side by side and they look at me quizzically and ask why they would want to do that.
Modal windows are a bad workaround to managing state. It's as if, as Alan Cooper said, in the middle of a collaborative work effort, you have to stop what you are doing, leave the room, enter another, get oriented, answer one question, and return to what you are doing. The costs in context-switching are huge compared to the benefit.
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