Subject Re: Questions with regards to dBASE PLUS 12 From Dennis Guay <dguay@live.com> Date Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:14:09 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Ken Mayer Wrote: > On 12/11/2018 7:13 PM, Dennis Guay wrote: > > > 1. When executing reports from my applications, the report viewer is now automatically > > minimized at the bottom of the screen. Never used to do this. Is there a way I > > can force these reports to open mazimized automatically? I don't see a maximize > > property in the Inspector. > > This may be something in the plus.ini file, or in this case the .ini for > your application. You may want to take a look at that. > I looked at the plus.ini and found this: [ReportViewer] Position=0 0 1052 1044 If I'm not mistaken, it looks okay to me. But actually you know what I ended up doing to solve this problem, as it appears to be a rare windows 10 bug that is causing this, not dBASE. Basically the idea is to get hidden windows back with a keyboard trick. Set offscreen window as active by alt tabbing. Shift right click the taskbar button and choose maximize. It's a handy little trick for solving a somewhat rare but frustrating problem that always forces the windows to open minimized continuously. Once I did this little trick the report viewer would always open maximized like it used to on other machines. > > 2. When I browse the c:\users\user\documents\dbase\plus 12\samples\ directory the > > Navigator cannot see any of the files inside there. This happens intermittently. One > > minute its there and the next minute its not. If I get desperate, I just copy the > > samples folder to my desktop for example and then it will work. > > I have never seen this happen, but I don't tend to navigate to the > samples folder from the Navigator often. Some more details might be useful. > It seems to be okay now .. it was only doing this when selecting the select folder button. The drop down radio button seems to work every time > > 3. I wanted to add page numbers to my reports. In the help documentation it says > > to drag the PageNumber component from the Component palette's Custom page to the > > report page. Problem is, I don't see a Custom page. It says that this custom component > > is installed with the dBASE PLUS samples. So how exactly do I turn this Custom page > > on? > > set procedure to :reportcontrols:report.cc > > For whatever reason this is not automatically loading. > > > 4. In one of my applications I use the Zseeker custom component. In order for it > > to work it must have the seeker.cc set in order for Zseeker.cc to work. > > > > So for example, the source would look like this: > > > > set procedure to seeker.cc additive > > set procedure to zseeker.cc additive > > > > The thing is, the set procedure to seeker.cc additive line of code always disappears > > when in form designer mode. And so the workaround is that I always have to manually > > retype in this one line of code whenever I make changes to the application or rebuild. > > Why does it do this? > > Because there is no reference on the form to any control in seeker.cc. > The form designer is looking in the constructor code for anything that > might be referenced in that file. You should probably do something in > the form's onOpen or overridden open/readmodal event handler that opens > both files. That way there will be no confusion for the designer. > Still trying to wrap my head around this, but will come back to this within the next couple days or so. > Hope that helps. You may want to look at my books (see below) and/or the > tutorial (also below) ... > > Ken > Thanks Ken, I will defenitely look at getting your books soon. I also have my eye on your tutorial as I would like to do it and brush up on things. Dennis. > -- > *Ken Mayer* > Ken's dBASE Page: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase > The dUFLP: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/index.htm#duflp > dBASE Books: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Books/dBASEBooks.htm > dBASE Tutorial: http://www.goldenstag.net/dbase/Tutorial/00_Preface.htm