Alpha Software Mobile Development Tools:   Alpha Anywhere    |   Alpha TransForm subscribe to our YouTube Channel  Follow Us on LinkedIn  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Facebook

Announcement

Collapse

The Alpha Software Forum Participation Guidelines

The Alpha Software Forum is a free forum created for Alpha Software Developer Community to ask for help, exchange ideas, and share solutions. Alpha Software strives to create an environment where all members of the community can feel safe to participate. In order to ensure the Alpha Software Forum is a place where all feel welcome, forum participants are expected to behave as follows:
  • Be professional in your conduct
  • Be kind to others
  • Be constructive when giving feedback
  • Be open to new ideas and suggestions
  • Stay on topic


Be sure all comments and threads you post are respectful. Posts that contain any of the following content will be considered a violation of your agreement as a member of the Alpha Software Forum Community and will be moderated:
  • Spam.
  • Vulgar language.
  • Quotes from private conversations without permission, including pricing and other sales related discussions.
  • Personal attacks, insults, or subtle put-downs.
  • Harassment, bullying, threatening, mocking, shaming, or deriding anyone.
  • Sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise discriminatory jokes and language.
  • Sexually explicit or violent material, links, or language.
  • Pirated, hacked, or copyright-infringing material.
  • Encouraging of others to engage in the above behaviors.


If a thread or post is found to contain any of the content outlined above, a moderator may choose to take one of the following actions:
  • Remove the Post or Thread - the content is removed from the forum.
  • Place the User in Moderation - all posts and new threads must be approved by a moderator before they are posted.
  • Temporarily Ban the User - user is banned from forum for a period of time.
  • Permanently Ban the User - user is permanently banned from the forum.


Moderators may also rename posts and threads if they are too generic or do not property reflect the content.

Moderators may move threads if they have been posted in the incorrect forum.

Threads/Posts questioning specific moderator decisions or actions (such as "why was a user banned?") are not allowed and will be removed.

The owners of Alpha Software Corporation (Forum Owner) reserve the right to remove, edit, move, or close any thread for any reason; or ban any forum member without notice, reason, or explanation.

Community members are encouraged to click the "Report Post" icon in the lower left of a given post if they feel the post is in violation of the rules. This will alert the Moderators to take a look.

Alpha Software Corporation may amend the guidelines from time to time and may also vary the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the guidelines will be deemed agreement to any changes to it.



Bonus TIPS for Successful Posting

Try a Search First
It is highly recommended that a Search be done on your topic before posting, as many questions have been answered in prior posts. As with any search engine, the shorter the search term, the more "hits" will be returned, but the more specific the search term is, the greater the relevance of those "hits". Searching for "table" might well return every message on the board while "tablesum" would greatly restrict the number of messages returned.

When you do post
First, make sure you are posting your question in the correct forum. For example, if you post an issue regarding Desktop applications on the Mobile & Browser Applications board , not only will your question not be seen by the appropriate audience, it may also be removed or relocated.

The more detail you provide about your problem or question, the more likely someone is to understand your request and be able to help. A sample database with a minimum of records (and its support files, zipped together) will make it much easier to diagnose issues with your application. Screen shots of error messages are especially helpful.

When explaining how to reproduce your problem, please be as detailed as possible. Describe every step, click-by-click and keypress-by-keypress. Otherwise when others try to duplicate your problem, they may do something slightly different and end up with different results.

A note about attachments
You may only attach one file to each message. Attachment file size is limited to 2MB. If you need to include several files, you may do so by zipping them into a single archive.

If you forgot to attach your files to your post, please do NOT create a new thread. Instead, reply to your original message and attach the file there.

When attaching screen shots, it is best to attach an image file (.BMP, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, etc.) or a zip file of several images, as opposed to a Word document containing the screen shots. Because Word documents are prone to viruses, many message board users will not open your Word file, therefore limiting their ability to help you.

Similarly, if you are uploading a zipped archive, you should simply create a .ZIP file and not a self-extracting .EXE as many users will not run your EXE file.
See more
See less

Popup Forms

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Popup Forms

    How do I center a popup form on the screen?

    Thanks,
    Daryl

    #2
    RE: Popup Forms

    Daryl,

    Not sure I remember how I did it but will verify it tomorrow. In the pop up window's properties, there are settings for form location. So many " east, west, north, south. Well, it doesn't say E,W,N,S but you get the idea.

    kenn
    TYVM :) kenn

    Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

    Comment


      #3
      RE: Popup Forms

      Daryl,

      Go to the Properties for the pop-up form, click Window and at the top you'll see settings for the side and top. Try settig each one at 3 and see where that puts it.

      kenn
      TYVM :) kenn

      Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

      Comment


        #4
        RE: Popup Forms

        There are ways to do it that might be simpler, but because of different screen resolutions, I believe more accurate results can be obtained with this bit of code:

        f = form.view("OneOfYourForms", "Popup")
        screenX = ui_info(0)
        screenY = ui_info(1)
        formX = f.width
        formY = f.height
        x = (screenX - formX) / 2
        y = (screenY - formY) / 2
        f.left = x
        f.top = y

        Tom Lyon

        Comment


          #5
          RE: Popup Forms

          Tom,

          Does this automaticly place it in the center no mater what the screen size? Also, if the pop-up location were to be on the side and lower, how would you handle that?

          kenn
          TYVM :) kenn

          Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

          Comment


            #6
            RE: Popup Forms

            x = (screenX - formX) / 2
            y = (screenY - formY) / 2

            Dividing the total available screen width and height by two centers the form. If you wanted to have it lower and "righter" you would make the divisor smaller, resulting in a higher starting position.

            x = (screenX - formX) / 1.5 (or such)
            y = (screenY - formY) / 1.5 (or such)

            If you lower the divisor to 1, the form would be placed at farthest right and bottom position, likely off the screen.

            The opposite would be true for higher and "lefter".
            There can be only one.

            Comment


              #7
              RE: Popup Forms

              Unfortunately due to an anamoly in A5 (read as bug), A5 code can not seem to properly move a box (pop-up for sure) from which it is invoked. In other words, placing the centering code in an OnInit or OnActivate event will not properly be able to move itself. The code that opens the window, however, can move it.

              Also, the positon of A5's main window (the whole thing) is given in inches. If you want to center within that window, you must divide by 96 (dots per inch) for most systems. Also you may want to check if any of the window you are displaying would be off screen and adjust accordingly. If you center to an A5 window, and the window is mostly off screen, it is possible to have a pop-up box that you can not see and can not click on or even move.

              Regards,

              Ira J. Perlow
              Computer Systems Design & Associates
              [email protected]
              Regards,

              Ira J. Perlow
              Computer Systems Design


              CSDA A5 Products
              New - Free CSDA DiagInfo - v1.39, 30 Apr 2013
              CSDA Barcode Functions

              CSDA Code Utility
              CSDA Screen Capture


              Comment


                #8
                RE: Popup Forms

                Stan,

                Thanks. Goses to show there is always more than one way to do something. I thought Ira's comments to be interesting as well. Thanks Ira.

                kenn
                TYVM :) kenn

                Knowing what you can achieve will not become reality until you imagine and explore.

                Comment


                  #9
                  RE: Popup Forms

                  Yes, it does. But, as Ira points out below, the script must be invoked from a form other than the popup form. This is done in the sample script above.

                  Stan beat me to your alternate positioning question below.

                  The ui_info() command reads the current screen resolution.

                  Hidden forms could be interesting :) One might be able to type into them if using a script to give focus to the hidden form. No idea what use it could be, except maybe venting frustration where no one could see it :)

                  Hmmm..maybe one could create a virtual desktop within Alpha Five?

                  Tom Lyon

                  Comment


                    #10
                    RE: Popup Forms

                    Thanks for everyone's input. I will give it a try.

                    Thanks,
                    Daryl

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X