Re: Q: Forms 5: How to programmatically build a dynamic canvas

Johan,

The problem, I think, will be that Forms is not completely object-like in design....I like to call it "pretending to be object-oriented"

Not every property of every object is
programmatically controllable.. take for example, all boilerplate objects are fixed at design time. Therefore, any solution you discover ends up being an elaborate amount of work for something that other languages have intrinsicly. This is not to say that you cannot design a generic screen, only that it will be more difficult than you might expect.

For example: I was not happy with MESSAGE and wanted the more typical MessageBox, like Visual Basic or Foxpro, et. al. I was able to do this quite nicely, but it required some work creating a series of functions and Alerts to handle the possibilities... prinicipally because the only properties visible at runtime in an Alert are Title and Text.

This is not to say that I am anti-Forms, merely that it has some severe quirks which will require greater amounts of effort to be creative and innovative.

Good Luck,
Robert Proffitt

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Before you buy. Received on Mon Mar 20 2000 - 11:32:29 CST