The main visible difference between a dialogue box and a standard form
is the fact that (dialogue box) doesn't have a title part.

Another difference is in the fact that the position of the form is not
the same (twips)
Can I detect in OPAL if an opened form is dialogue box or windows ?
Régis

Régis,

Dialog boxes can have title bars.

Forms have a property called DialogForm - I'm assuming if you attach a
form variable to a form, you can check whether DialogForm is true.

Liz


Régis Duc Dodon wrote:

Thanks Liz for your help,
The following works fine


var
fHandle form
endvar
if not fHandle.dialogForm =True then
msginfo("The form"," A STANDARD FORM")
else
msginfo("The Form is opened as"," A DIALOG BOX")
endif

Régis

Obviously, this code is for a form already open.

Régis Duc Dodon a écrit :

So be sure to minimize or hide the dialog box if you do this. :-)


--

Tony McGuire
"It's not about having enough time. It's about priorities."
___________________________

Régis

A very important difference is:
A form opened from a dialogbox will open behind the dialogbox.

--
Bertil Isberg - CTECH
Paradox buglist:
online: http://hem.bredband.net/bertilisberg/

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Régis,
what all the other told...
Another difference is, that dialogforms are no child windows of the calling
form. That means, the calling form keep the size they had in the moment they
call the dialogform. A normal windows will change to synchronize caller and
called form (they get restored).
And: In dialog forms the mouse wheel doesn't work unless you have the
subclassing dll from JanM.

See you soon at the convention!

Egbert, 12:23 in Germany


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