BROWSE? Don't go there. It's too difficult to control programmatically. And if you're using it directly against a DBF (not a view or cursor), you're asking for file corruption. There is nothing stopping from putting a grid on a form. It can expand full screen without problems.
>I need to open 2 simultaneous Browse windows, allowing the user to go back and forth between the windows to reconcile records of one window against the other. However, when I use
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>DEFINE WINDOW browse1 IN DESKTOP FROM 5,5 TO 30, 180 FONT 'Arial', 8 STYLE 'N'
>DEFINE WINDOW browse2 IN DESKTOP FROM 5,5 TO 30, 180 FONT 'Arial', 8 STYLE 'N'
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>SELECT (cFile1)
>GO TOP
>BROWSE window browse1 NOAPPEND NODELETE NOWAIT
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>SELECT (cFile2)
>GO TOP
>BROWSE window browse2 NOAPPEND NODELETE NOWAIT
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>* Program execution should no go beyond this point, until the user closes BOTH browse windows.
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>RELEASE WINDOW browse1
>RELEASE WINDOW browse2
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>The program does not stop to allow the user to switch between the windows. It just leaves the window open and proceed to the following statements.
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>If I remove the NOWAIT from second BROWSE statment, then as soon as I switch to the first browse window, the second one closes and the program execution continues.
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>Thank you in advance.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer