Discussions tagged PFC
How do I communicate between a pop-up window and parent window?
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- Last updated 1 month ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 3 weeks ago
Hi all,
I have a window with a tab folder. The tab folder has 4 tabs. In one of the tabs, I need to open a pop-up window from the dw on the tab page to do some calculations. (The window pops up from an option on the RMB menu). The dw has a couple...
Is there an MDI regain focus event?
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- Last updated 4 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 4 months ago
Hi Friends,
I have an MDI app. In one of MDI sheets, I have a dw object and a tab object. Both objects have code for the rbuttonup event that pops up a different menu depending on which object or tab is clicked.
When the user has the app running ...
Drag/Drop event firing when it shouldn't
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- Last updated 5 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 5 months ago
Hi all,
My customer noticed something very strange... when he's got my application running, then clicks on the desktop (or runs another app from his task bar), then comes back to my application, the Drag/Drop event is firing. I sprinkled the code w...
How do I over-ride Windows paste() function?
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- Last updated 6 months ago
- John Fauss replied 6 months ago
Hi all,
I've got a dw that I want to over-ride the default Windows paste behavior on. In my dw the user can copy (CTRL+C) a value, then highlight several rows and paste (CTRL+V). I have an event ue_keypress for the keypress event, and trap CTRL+V....
Is there a PFC equivalent to datawindow.ReadOnly = Yes ?
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- Last updated 6 months ago
- PowerObject ! replied 6 months ago
I've got a couple of DW's that I want to be read-only under certain conditions. I use PFC's dw.of_SetUpdateable( FALSE ), but I also don't want any of the columns to be "clickable". So, I add dw.modify("Datawindow.ReadOnly=YES"). This work, but ...
DDDW in DW object causing the DW to appear to be modified.
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Andreas Mykonios replied 7 months ago
Me again,
In my window with a parent DW that has 3 DDDW fields, if I select something from the one of the DDDW's, it appears that the dw update status is changed to Modified! The DW is set to not updateable. When I close the window, I get a message ...
Why isn't one of my DDW's displaying the right column on initial retrieve?
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 7 months ago
Hi all,
I've got a datawindow with 3 DropDownDW's. I can't retrieve the drop-downs until after the parent dw is retrieved. The Auto Retrieve is checked OFF on all three . In the parent DW's RetrieveEnd event I've got the following code:
ll_TmdeI...
Can I open a file in web browser using HttpClient?
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 7 months ago
Hi all,
From another post, I learned that the iNet object is now obsolete. How do I open a file in a web-browser using HttpClient object? Is the even possible, or do I need to use the WebBrowser object?
I don't need to do it now, but would like to...
How to use RUN powerscript function in a loop?
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 6 months ago
Hi all,
I need to loop through a few records and if all conditions are met, run a program. This works fine for one record. The program I'm running requires user interaction. Is there a way to wait for the other program to close before moving to t...
Clicking the keyboard TAB is causing strange behavior in Tab Object
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 7 months ago
Hi all,
So my Beta Tester found something strange (and unacceptable) in one of my windows. In the app, there are 4 windows each with a folder object. Each folder object is inherited from the pfc's u_tab object. This strange behavior is only happeni...
How does everyone include Help Topics in their App?
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- Last updated 7 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 7 months ago
Hi all,
Just curious how everyone is incorporating Help Topic in their app. About 20 years ago, we used RoboHelp, but I haven't maintained it since then... and don't even know where the Help file we created is. Embarrassing. Creating and maintai...
How can I use dragdrop to rearrange rows on dw?
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- Last updated 8 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 8 months ago
Hi all,
I need to be able to re-arrange rows on my dw with dragdrop. This works fine in my legacy code. I'm using PB2021 and PFC 12.5 .
My dw has row select service on, one row at a time. When I set the dw DragAuto option ON, the row select d...
Can I respond to DDE commands from a Datawindow control?
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- Last updated 9 months ago
- John Fauss replied 9 months ago
Hi all,
I'm still re-working a lot of my old code. My application supports DDE for communication with 3rd party Instrumentation software mostly written in LabView (ACPs). All of the commands are at the window level in the original code. I'm moving...
How to call a function on a tab object?
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 9 months ago
Hi all,
I have a tab object inherited from u_tab: utab_folder. Another tab object inherited from utab_folder: utab_lab. In utab_folder I defined an instance variable u_tab itab_This, and in the constructor event of utab_folder I set the itab_This ...
How do I enable Sorting on Master/Detail window
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Tracy Lamb replied 10 months ago
Hi all,
Took me a few days to get the Column sort to work, but it's working great now. I have a question: I have a few master/detail windows. When I click on a column label in the master dw to sort by that column, it sorts fine, but the detail dw ...
How to I set column sorting on a dw?
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- John Fauss replied 10 months ago
Hi all,
I've got a few grid style DW's that I'd like to automatically sort when the user clicks on the column name (label). I'm using PB2021 and the latest PFC. The dw's inherit from u_dw. I'm turning on the sort service, but it seems to be ignore...
Prevent Value Required Message from displaying
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 10 months ago
In my dw, I have a column that requires the user to double-click to select a value from another table (Search screen). This works great, but before the Select response window displays, I get a message "Value Required for this Item"... twice. How ca...
Strange popup menu displaying after RMB popup
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- Last updated 10 months ago
- Miguel Leeuwe replied 10 months ago
Hi all,
I'm using the latest PFC in my PB2021 development. In the u_dw object, I over-ride the anscestor pfc script for lbuttondown, lbuttonup, rbuttondown, and rbuttonup events. In the descendent dw, I add the following code to the rbuttonup even...
Hi all,
I'm testing out pfc tab objects, and I have a question about the resize service. In the constructor event of the tab object, I enable the resize service and register all of the resizable objects:
integer li_rcitab_This = this
of_setresize...
Why use the pfc tab object?
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- Last updated 11 months ago
- PowerObject ! replied 5 months ago
Hi all,
I'm upgrading most of the windows in my app, using PFC objects as much as possible. I have 5 or 6 windows that use the tab object. Is there a reason I would use the pfc tab object? If I use the pfc tab object, do I also need to use the pf...
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