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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:03 am    Post subject: What The Heck Am I Doing Wrong?! :-( Reply with quote
Code:
%W = @winpos(@winexists(~TEXT1),W)


Ummm, and I doing something wrong in that line of code? I keep getting an error on it.

Quote:
Error: Invalid parameter to command



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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:54 am    Post subject: Re: What The Heck Am I Doing Wrong?! :-( Reply with quote
Your problem is the following returns nothing:
Code:
@winexists(~TEXT1)

I.E. %x will be null if you do this:
Code:
%x = @winexists(~TEXT1)

Which efectively makes your line of code into:
Code:
%W = @winpos(,W)

Which obviously has a missing parameter.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
And the solution is?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's odd, can you post the DIALOG CREATE portion of your program. Could be a certain style on the editbox which may be causing a problem.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I sure hope this isn't a Vista related issue..... I just finally upgraded to it and would be bummed out a bit if I can't use me favorite wittle VDS here.

Code:
  DIALOG CREATE,Appbar 2G,-1,0,756,152
  DIALOG ADD,STYLE,STYLE1,Tahoma,,,,WHITE
REM *** Modified by Dialog Designer on 6/11/2007 - 16:55 ***
  DIALOG ADD,BITMAP,BITMAP1,0,0,756,24,C:\Users\Garrett\Documents\Dev Projects\1-Current Projects\Appbar 2G\skin drafts\Image26.bmp,,STRETCH
  DIALOG ADD,BITMAP,BITMAP2,59,28,71,24,C:\Users\Garrett\Documents\Dev Projects\1-Current Projects\Appbar 2G\skin drafts\Image26btn.bmp
  DIALOG ADD,TEXT,TEXT1,63,138,,,Appbar 2G,,STYLE1,TRANSPARENT,CLICK
  DIALOG SHOW
wait 1
  %W = @winpos(@winexists(~TEXT1),W)
warn > %W

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Definitely not Vista, or style related, because I get the same thing here in XP Pro with the following code:
Code:
  DIALOG CREATE,New Dialog,-1,0,240,160
  DIALOG ADD,TEXT,TEXT1,42,40,,,TEXT1
  DIALOG SHOW

  %W = @winpos(@winexists(~TEXT1),W)

And:
Code:
  DIALOG CREATE,New Dialog,-1,0,240,160
  DIALOG ADD,TEXT,TEXT1,42,40,,,TEXT1
  DIALOG SHOW

  %X = @winexists(~TEXT1)
  %W = @winpos(%X,W)

I also tried:
Code:
  DIALOG ADD,TEXT,TEXT1,42,40,30,13,TEXT1

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmm, thi sworks fine:
Code:
  DIALOG CREATE,New Dialog,-1,0,240,160
  DIALOG ADD,EDIT,EDIT1,42,40,50,18,EDIT1
  DIALOG SHOW

  %W = @winpos(@winexists(~EDIT1),W)

So it seems there's a bug with using winexists to check for a text element. Maybe a text element is not considered a window?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting Confused If you change TEXT1 to an EDIT Element it works.

It seems that you can only SET the TEXT element but not GET the TEXT element.

I get the issue on XP and VISTA

Hmmmm.................

BTW - you shouldn't need @WINEXISTS() on your own dialog.
Just use %W = @WINPOS(TEXT1) except appearently it needs to be something other than a TEXT element Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I could swear for the life of me that I've been able to get the width of a text element before in VDS.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
ahh I figured you renamed your edit box to TEXT1. You are using a text control, the text control is not a windowed control, it draws directly to the form. Since it is not a windowed control, it will not have a window handle - thus the reason you get a null result on @winexists.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Aslan is almost right. You don't need to use @winexists(), but you still need to put the ~ in front of the element name, to tell @winpos that this is an internal element name not the title of a main window. I *think* this should work for all elements, including text elements.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks Jules, gave that a try. At least I don't get any error now... Now I just get nothing, which is better than an error, right? Wink

Well nix this idea now anyway.

Wait! Isn't there a @dlgpos() function?....................................

Uh huh! Yup! There sure is and guess what? It freaking works! Rolling Eyes

Sureeeeee..... I don't feel completely and utterly stupid right now! Confused

Thanks everyone for trying to help me out here. I appreciate it greatly. Smile Maybe next time I'll use the right function for the job instead of trying to force another function to do my dirty work.
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