I don't know if P10 can do better than p7. I've never bumped up against an
object limit in P7. But a cheap experiment (compared to redevelopment) would be
to buy a copy of P10 (get an upgrade price), install, copy the FSL, resave the
copy in 10 and then redeliver in 10 and see if you can run it. If so, then try
adding or modifying the now P10 fsl and see what happens.

Denn Santoro
President
Resource Development Associates
http://www.RDAWorldWide.Com
Offices in the United States and Germany
Providing solutions to health care, business, governments and non-profits since
1982

I think Corel has a '30 day trial' version. They used to, at least.

Course, their site kinda got 'broke' when they revamped after release
wp2003.

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Tony

"I woke up and was able to get myself out of bed.
Being that fortunate, what's to complain about?"
_____________

Ken,

You're right, the new download doesn't appear to have P11 in it
(though it could just be hidden - did you do a custom install?).

That copy of P8 you chucked had everything you needed, it's just that
no one went to settings > developer preferences and set the ObjectPAL
level to advanced and turn on developer menus. (Sorry you had to find
out too late.)

I would think P10 would be better than P7-16 for what you need, but
I'm not sure whether it'd be better than P7-32. I would think the OS
might make a difference (use 2K, IMO).

Finally, have you considered faking the 1-form look? make all those
notetabs empty, make several forms with no borders, open them all when
the main one opens, but all are hidden except the one which represents
the default tab. Positioning relative to the tab and hiding/showing
should be fairly simple....

Each individual form should run better at that point, I would think.
And done right, the users really wouldn't be able to tell.

Liz


K+ wrote:

K+ wrote:

I think that you would be better off with a different approach (like
what Liz suggested), first off you can control windows quite well in
paradox (I use 9 at the moment but it should not matter).

Instead of having 1 form and consequently 1 window, you could have
several windows with no frames "glued" together by positioning the
windows. I work exclusivle with dialog (non-modal) windows at the moment
and I also hide the main application-window. This gives you sort of a
puzzle-box quality.

Think like html-frames, and do dialog-style-windows that you position
the way you want to. As it sounds it would not be a problem to keep your
application in a constant place on the screen? Then you can prevent the
users from moving any of the windows and hence get a 1 form-look, using
as many forms as you like and need. I'll be happy to explain more if you
are interested. I went from P5 to P8 so can't say for sure about the
windowing stuff in P7 (or in 5 and 8 as I have only started using this
approach since I have run with P9), but I would think the main
functionality is the same.

- Veronica

Thanks Liz & Veronica - your thoughts "outside the square" are certainly
worth a try. It might be tricky because there's a lot of interaction betwen
objects on the notepad and objects elsewhere on the form. The main form is
permanently maximized, so anchoring other forms should be straightforward..
I have to go "bush" for a week or so tomorrow so it may be a fortnight
before I can report back on the outcome.

Re P8 ...ouch (rummage, rummage!).

I'm currently in the process of moving from Win98 to Win2K now that machines
with pen drivers are available, but I still experience a few problems with
display of some objects despite setting application compatibility tool to
NT4, tweaking video display settings, etc. I may be back to pester the cdp
group about that after I've had a chance to wrestled with it a bit more.

Cheers,

Ken