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Dockable forms not contained within screen
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07/11/2005 13:04:10
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01065405
Message ID:
01066092
Views:
16
>>>>Hi All
>>>>
>>>>I have a form class that has ShowWindow = 0 - In screen. If I create an instance of it then I cannot drag this form outside the boundaries of the VFP application screen as expected and desired. If I set Dockable property to a non-zero value then I can drag the form outside of the VFP application screen. Not expected or desired as a user can drag the form off the top, bottom, left, or right of the Windows desktop completely :) I think this is perhaps a bug.
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>>>>Update: It appears as if when dockable > 0 the Desktop property becomes .T. although you cannot set this property as .T. if dockable > 0 in design time??
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>>>The command window behaves the same way when dockable, and I *like* it! ;-)
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>>Well VS dockable windows work the same way but I can see my users dragging the thing off screen and then complaining that they lost their windows :)
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><g> Yep.
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>We get calls all the time from users who've "lost" their task bar/start menu -- they've accidentally resized it to a height of 0.
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>But take away the "freedom" and they'll whine too. ;-)

Yeah, I cant stand clients ... :)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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