I’m looking for a reference and/or User manual page reference to scripting a floating input form.
Much thanks.
Where or how should it float? What do you mean by float (sounds like your form should “travel” around the screen).
As far as I know, you cannot create a floating screen. You can use ShowFormInDialog to open a seperate screen, but the user must close the form out (Via action or event) to be able to return to the background screen.
Hope this helps if that was what you where refering to.
ebrandt:
As far as I know, you cannot create a floating screen. You can use ShowFormInDialog to open a seperate screen, but the user must close the form out (Via action or event) to be able to return to the background screen.Hope this helps if that was what you where refering to.
That’s what I meant by “float”. The above function sounds like it’s exactly what I’m looking for. A dialogue floating above the background that demands user response in some form before going back to the background.
It’s very difficult to find what you’re looking for when the syntax and terminology is so completely foreign, the user manuals are several hundreds of pages and the indexing is, as yet, very thin, still lacking in redundancy and cross referencing.
Maybe you shouldn’t start reading manuals but rather take apart the CRM example provided by Servoy. There, for example, you can see “a floating dialog” when the solution starts.
The ShowFromInDialog will open a window displaying any of the forms you have created. I use this feature everywhere. Just do a search in your help for the command. It will tell you where to find it, and how to use it.
Hope that helps.
patrick:
Maybe you shouldn’t start reading manuals but rather take apart the CRM example provided by Servoy. There, for example, you can see “a floating dialog” when the solution starts.
I did but found it difficult to piece together just what was happening. What was much more helpful was Bob Cusick’s FMP to Servoy tutorial. That document is very rough in spots, has some bugs, but it gave me a feel for the “grammar” of Servoy.
I’m extremely comfortable with FMP, but that’s programming with training wheels permanently bolted on. It’s stunning to be reduced again to learning how to walk as if for the first time. I’m using all the resources I can think of. It’s slow but there’s noticable progress.
Thanks to everyone.
I am right there with you, been using fm since 3.0. The learning curve with servoy far out weighs that of any other delevopment envoirment using 3 tier architechture. It’s never a bad thing to add a little java to your arsenal.