Top Level Forms / Writing Notes in a separate Window

[kazl]

Hi Everyone

First, I apologise if this has been covered, if so, could anyone please point me in the right direction?


I have a grid screen with command buttons in the form, showing help notes topics. When the user right-clicks on a topic in the grid this opens another form with an edit box and a small grid of URLs/link names.

It's working over the top of other programs at the moment.

I would like to make this work in a separate window, e.g. on the Desktop (toplevel form?) so users can tab between the two.

Is this really possible? I had problems due to no READ EVENTS, so the screen would flash and vanish. But I really want to avoid READ EVENTS as this affects the other programs. (Also, if I just throw one in I get fatal errors - daft idea!)

If I use Show(1) for my form will this work if it's top level? There are some issues about this and modal, should I follow the threads on fixing these?

Any ideas would be welcome.

Thanks

Karen

 

[TamarGranor]

It does sound like you want top-level forms. READ EVENTS shouldn't prevent this or get in the way of other applications.

Tamar

 

[mspratt]

Hi Karen,

Top level forms are never modal.

Regards,

Mike

 

[kazl]

Thanks for your responses.
Will have to have another go at this.

Karen