I just wanted to tell you thank you very much for the hint about using theU|Enable method of the child pageframe to handle my problem. It took a little re-designing of my entire OOP scheme, but you gave me the perfect foundation for making it work exactly like I wanted. This is why I love UT!!

THANK YOU!! I had about 3-4 hours in my last attempt and was not getting anywhere. You saved me a bunch of time and headache.




>Malt,
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>you like to now whe the child pageframe gets visible?
>This is not activated. Acivate will fire for example if the form get focus again.
>Update: See Message#1290340 for the problem.
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>UIEnable of an object tells you the moment a "parent" page gets visible. This is the right moment to set the activepage of the child.
>If it is ones visible there is no need to change later, wheter the page goes activated or not.
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>It's better OOP anyway, the parent page should not care whats visible, this is the job of the child pgf.
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>Other approach:
>If you got lost with all that events, simple do not use the events. Create a method of your own Like "SwitchPage" if you need to switch activepage call that method. something like
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>LPARAMETERS;
> tnTargetPage
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>do case
> case tnTargetPage=1
>*nothing here, just switch
> case tnTargetPage=2
>*tricky child
>  do case
>   case lExpression1
>    this.pgfParent.Page2.pgfChild.activepage=1
>   case lExpression2
>    this.pgfParent.Page2.pgfChild.activepage=2
>   otherwise
>* all rubish do not switch (return parameter)
>tnTargetPage = this.pgfParent.activepage
>  endcase
>*end so one
>endcase
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>this.pgfParent.activepage = tnTargetPage
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>HTH
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>Agnes
>>I don't exactly get what your suggesting. Can you exaplain a little more about how you think this would address my problem?
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>>>have a look at the child pageframes UIEnable event instead of parents activate.
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>>>Agnes
>>>>I have a parent Pageframe with 2 pages, and on page2 of that, I have another pageframe (call it the child pageframe) also with 2 pages.
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>>>>Based on what the user chooses on certain controls of Page1 of the parent pageframe, when they switch to page2 of the parent, I need to set the activepage of the child pageframe to its page1 or page2.
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>>>>The code to set the childpageframe.activepage property is called in the parentpageframe.page2.activate() event. So that is causing the activate() event of the target child page to fire (which it should), but also, because focus has passed from parent.page1 to parent.page2, that seems to be firing the activate event of the current child page AGAIN after my code has been run. So basically, the child pageframe.pagex.active() is firing twice, once by my custom code in parentpageframe.page2.activate(), and once because of the focus change to parentpageframe.page2.
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>>>>The real pproblem is that I need to know if the childpageframe.pagex.activate() event is firing because of the user switching between child pageframe pages, or becuase they have switched from parent page1 to parent page2.