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[Steven Kang]

Neil Robinson wrote:

> We will either add a proper one, or we will add a cobbled together one,
depending. There are stll a number of things I would like
> to see added, and I thoroughly agree with you about this one.

> Ciao, Neil

OK. In the meantime, please can we have a code snippet of a dialogframe
from one of the Simpol Personal dialogs to show the rectangle lines
default properties.

Incidentally, the dialogframes in the Page Setup dialog are missing the
2nd rectangles and look odd.

Steven

[Steven Kang]

The problem is more with the Alt + Key combinations and it turns out to be
an issue even in formview.

1. Load the checkin.sxf form in Personal but do not use the mouse to place
focus on the form nor on the menu bar.
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2. Pressing the Alt key will cause the the menu bar items to display the
speedkey letter underscore characters but Alt+F etc will not cause the
respective menu (e.g. File menu) to open (drop down). Nor will Alt+N cause
the "Notes" push button to fire nor Alt+S select the "Smoker" checkbox.
Once focus has been placed on a menu bar item or on a form control with
the mouse, then the Alt+Key combinations work as they should.
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3. Ctrl+R and Ctrl+T will switch to record and table views but the
Alt+MenuKey combinations will not work unless focus is first placed in a
record or table field using the mouse.
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4. Ctrl+F will switch back to formview but the user still cannot drop down
the file menus using the Alt+Key combinations. However, Alt+N and Alt+S
will now work after switching back to form view even if no formcontrol
appears to have the focus.
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5. The Addressbook and SB Air applications display the same (mis)behaviour.
—
If these are not bugs, but require some workaround, then that should be
demonstrated in the Addressbook and SB Air applications, both in
Auto-Locking and Explicit-Locking modes as I suspect the workaround will
not be very obvous to most people (especially in explicit-locking mode).

Steven

[Steven Kang]

It is not possible to apply or save any any modified display formats in
version 1.74 either.

S.

[Steven Kang]

OK. Thanks for the explanation.

The check option control appears to have identical event handlers to the
option button control yet tabbing in to it only selects the legend and the
user can then toggle the control on or off using the space bar.

Assume it is the code to group the option buttons together that makes it
impossible to fix this?

[Steven Kang]

Steven Kang wrote:
>
> It has to be explicityly passed:

> appw.createformdirect(appw, functionname ="addressform").

> Also, why does the IDE inline help not show the appwindow parameter for
> both functions?

> Incidenally, the createformdirect function is missing from the appwindow
> properties table in the programming manual.

> S.

I've found the problem. Not only is the createformdirect function missing
from the appwindow properties table in the programming manual, it is also
missing from the appwindow type definition in the appframework.sma!

Once the missing declaration:

"function createformdirect readonly"

is added to the type defintion then and the re-compiled appframework.sml
used, then:

appw.createformdirect(appw, functionname ="addressform") now results in an
error 200 ("object has no value") but:

appw.createformdirect(functionname ="addressform")now works as expected
and passes the appwindow object as the "Me" parameter.

What are the differences between how "Me" works in SIMPOL compared to its
use in SBL?

S.

[Steven Kang]

Ignore above. Just noticed bug-fix release posted yesterday which fixes
this.

S.

[Steven Kang]

Hi John,

The getprivateprofilestring function is retrieving the Ipaddress from the
sbmecust.ini file located in the project bin directory. That file contains
a single entry:

[Config]
ppcsserver=ppcs.superbase.co.uk:1280

So you have to edit that to stop it being reset.

Neil,

Both "www.superbase.co.uk:1280" and "www.simpol.com:1280" work in Simpol
Personal (with the very occasional error 10 on the first attempt).
However, I *alway*s get an error 10 when using them in the openudpfile
method in the various supplied samples mentioned above.

Steven.

[Steven Kang]

I suspect all the associated and needed calendar and arrow bmp files are
also missing from the bin directory.

Steven

[Steven Kang]

It does now update if the colour is changed.

However, the first time the dialog is opened, it does not update to
reflect the correct page background colour. It still always reads "236 233
216" regardless of the actual colour whereas the pushbutton to the left of
the RGB readout updates to display the correct colour.

Steven

[Steven Kang]

Message should have read Form and Page *Dialog*

S.

[Steven Kang]

Neil Robinson wrote:

> This shouldn't be the case. Can you check and see if the
> smpwin32.exe.manifest file is present in your bin directory? That is the
> file that decides whether the theme is supported or not.

> Ciao, Neil

No "smpwin32.exe.manifest" file present (only the smpwin32.exe). I have
rolled back previous versions to 1.0 and none installs this file as far as
I can see.

Steven

[Steven Kang]

Oops…posted before finished message:….

If you try to delete a record from the supplied Address Book or SBAir
applications, you get an error 908:

"PPCS-only. Attempt to lock one or more records where they are already
locked."

The error is generated on line:

appw.form.lock(error=e)

in the deleterecord() function in the supplied Applicaton.sma (part of the
ApplicationFramework library).

Does this function need re-working.

Also, I don't understand why the manual says this is a "PPCS-only" error
as neither of these applications appears to be using PPCS.

Steven

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