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Can't top-level form be modal?
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
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00461369
Message ID:
00461371
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No, top-level forms can not be modal. VFP coerces the WindowType to Non-modal during the instantiation process.

You can make a Desktop form modal and set its ShowWindow property to 1 - Show in Top-level.

HTH.


>Hello, everybody.
>
>I think I'm dumber that usual today (it is that possible???).
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>I'm building a little monitor application. It is based on a top-level form with a timer that runs diffferent processes from a list.
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>I put a button there that opens a configuration form (top-level, too) that give me access to that list, etc.
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>Now I want to know if the user confirmed or cancelled changes (at the form close). So I need to return a flag from this second form. I did set it as modal, but when I do:
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do form config with llOk
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>I get the infamous error: "The TO clause can only be used with modal Forms".
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>Do I have some way of receiving a parameter, better than passing a reference to the first form and switching a flag in it from the second one? I don't like this kind of coupling very much.
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>Thanks in advance, people.
Larry Miller
MCSD
LWMiller3@verizon.net

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. -- Mingjiao
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