Re: Help Forms 4.5 - MDI behavior
Date: 1996/07/15
Message-ID: <4sc6fp$q0j_at_gossamer.itmel.bhp.com.au>#1/1
In article <31E6AE6A.2DAA_at_erudite.com>, Shawn Odekirk <shawno_at_erudite.com> says:
>
>When I launch my Forms application under Windows, I would like an MDI frame window
>with a menu to open but I don't want any document windows open at first.
>The Forms 4.5 Runform window works well as my MDI frame, but I can't get it
>to stay open with out having some window open in it. I know I can hide the
>window to make it look like there are no documents open, but I can see the window
>open and then become hidden. How do I hide the window early enough in the opening
>of the form to keep it from flashing?
I believe pre-form is the earliest trigger, then when-new-form-instance.
I had a similar problem, but in reverse - when the user takes
a (customised) menu option to exit the entire forms 'stack',
each of the forms in the stack briefly flicks into view.
We do this by setting a global and then checking the global
in the when-window-activated trigger, and found we could NOT prevent
this flicking.
So I doubt you will be able to either.
HIH
Lee
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Opinions expressed are mostly my own, so give me some credit. Received on Mon Jul 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST