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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hi,

Is there a way to to disable a WINDOW ONTOP,my window.

You see I have a button then when clicked it will do a WINDOW ONTOP,mywindow. I want to be able to put back "my window" in a
NOT ONTOP mode when I click the button again.

Is that possible?

Thanks

Marty Smile

Mac · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2002 7:22 pm Post subject:

Here ya go...
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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Well thanks Mac it works well. Never thought of that to create a dummy dialog. But my concern is when I click on my Ontop Button my Dialog flickers a bit. I use a BMP as the dialog. The refresh is not "clean".

Have any other idea ?

I really like your original solution, and it solved another problem that I had.

Mac · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2002 9:50 pm Post subject:

It flickers because of closing one dialog before creating
another.

This example closes the 1st dialog AFTER the 2nd is created,
and seems to eliminate the flicker...
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marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Your second example works great. Now I have to implement this in my code which doesnt work when adding your code. I have multiple elements added to my dialog (list,bitmaps,text,etc...) So when ever It encounters Dialog select,1...Dialog close... everything closes when I click the ONtop button on MY program. So I have to work with your code and see why it closes with my program and not with your example.

Anyway Mac, Thank you very much for the example.

If come up with something I'll post it Wink

Marty

vdsalchemist · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2002 2:26 pm Post subject:

So what is wrong with using WINDOW NORMAL, mywindow

Like this in the buttons event....

Rem Here is some VDS 3.x code
:BUTTON1BUTTON
If @Equal(%%Ontop, true)
WINDOW ONTOP, mywindow
Else
WINDOW NORMAL, mywindow
End
Exit

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

I tried that already, and it didnt work for me with VDS 4

The window would stay ONTOP

Marty

Mac · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2002 10:40 pm Post subject:

Marty, make sure you catch the extra close event with
%e = @event() or something similiar. If you're using
the var %e elsewhere to catch events, try using another
var here.
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vdsalchemist · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2002 4:26 pm Post subject:

Hi All,
Sorry about my post earlier. I was not aware that there was a problem with WINDOW NORMAL or WINDOW ONTOP so I wrote my own. It will be in an up and comming DLL I am working on.

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Hey that's great!!

Can't wait to try that...

Marty Cool