control in the forms by procedure

[ameedoo3000]

hi all
i designed shortcut and need to write procedure or command to control in my form . how that?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Sorry, but my response is the same as when you asked this question earlier: It doesn't make sense.

I hope someone else here understands what you are asking and will be able to give you a solution.

Mike

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[ameedoo3000]

ok
my question is ( how can i call my "form1" from the procedure or command )

 

[Mike Lewis]

Have you tried this:

[tt]DO FORM Form1[/tt]

Mike

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[ameedoo3000]

i want to do that

what is the code to do that ( command / procedure )

 

[Mike Lewis]

OK, it looks like the root of your problem is that you are trying to execute a command from a menu, and that command contains THISFORM. Is that right?

If so, as you have discovered, you can't reference THISFORM from a menu. The solution is to store an object reference to the form in a variable, and then use that variable to address the form.

So in the code that creates the menu:

[tt]loForm = THISFORM[/tt]

Then, in the menu command:

[tt]
loFor.HideGrid() && or whateve method or property you want to address[/tt]

Does that answer the question?

Mike

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[Mike Lewis]

To be more specific,when I say "So in the code that creates the menu:" .....

Somewhere you have a [tt]DO ....MPR[/tt] (probably in a right-click event somewhere). It is in that code that you place [tt]loForm = THISFORM[/tt]. However, you need to make sure loForm stays in scope, so you will probably need to declare it as PRIVATE:

PRIVATE loForm
loForm = THISFORM
DO MyMenu.MPR

Mike

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[ameedoo3000]

Yes, that's what I want
but there is a problem !

 

[Dan Freeman]

You named the variable loForm but your menu code references loFor. See the typo?

It may be more generic if you use _Screen.Activeform instead.

 

[ameedoo3000]

Excuse me
There was an error in the code and it was modified
modified (loFor.HideGrid) to (loForm.grd_23.Visible = .F.)
Thank you very very very much my dear Mike.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Well, I'm glad it's working now, but I do wish you had been clearer in explaining the problem in the first place. It would have saved as all some time, and a lot of guesswork.

By the way, the resolution does not depend on your setting the grid's Visible to .F. rather than calling a method called HideGrid. The issue was as Dan pointed out: a simple typing error in the name of the variable. (And Dan is also correct about using _Screen.ActiveForm.)

Mike

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[ameedoo3000]

yes . many thanks for you my dear Mike .Now it is ok.
I learned a lot and a lot from this wonderful forum.
Thank you very much and to all your dear friends.