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SDI / MDI and refering to its main window
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16/10/1998 11:16:44
Marco Beuk
Innovero Software Solutions
The Hague, Netherlands
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00147457
Message ID:
00147503
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23
>>I want to enable SDI in my application (could be a nice way to enable multi-session support).
>>The ShowWindow property of my main form therefor is 2 - As top level form. The ShowWindow property of my other forms are set to 1 - In top level form.
>>So far so good.
>>I used to let users know where they are (navigation indicator) by displaying certain info in the header of the main form.
>>To do so i used _screen.caption.
>>My question is:
>>HOW CAN IK REFER TO MY MAIN FORM (_vfp/_screen/application all point to the main visual foxpro window which is hidden in my case).
>
>As long as child forms know about parent, just refer to the top-level:
>
>topform.caption = "I'm in child form X"

This generates an error: "Object TOPFORM is not found".
I named my top level form to "topform" but it didn't help.

You say: just refer to the top-level. But i don't know how to refer to the top-level.

Marco Beuk.
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