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  • January 20, 2011
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2011]

Hi There,

I am using Extend 9.0.0 at the moment and am looking at ways to position floating windows dynamically.

I have a form with many fields. Each of the fields has a button which when pressed calls another separate program. This program (helppgm), displays a hierarchial menu in its own floating window.

When helppgm is displayed, it displays in the centre of the main window. Is there a way to display it in the vicinity of the pressed button (control-value) that initiated the call ?

Thank-you.

Julie

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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2011]

    Hi There,

    I am using Extend 9.0.0 at the moment and am looking at ways to position floating windows dynamically.

    I have a form with many fields. Each of the fields has a button which when pressed calls another separate program. This program (helppgm), displays a hierarchial menu in its own floating window.

    When helppgm is displayed, it displays in the centre of the main window. Is there a way to display it in the vicinity of the pressed button (control-value) that initiated the call ?

    Thank-you.

    Julie
    There is an option with the DISPLAY WINDOW where you can specify screen location, e.g.:
    DISPLAY WINDOW SCREEN LINE 300 SCREEN COLUMN 300.
    As you can tell, this is in base units (pixels).

    But how to find the 300, 400?

    Well, suppose you have a handle to the button in question, you can do something of the following:
    77 SystemHandle PIC X(4) COMP-N.
    01 Rect.
        03 Pos-left PIC X(4) COMP-N.
        03 Pos-top PIC X(4) COMP-N.
        03 Pos-right PIC X(4) COMP-N.
        03 Pos-bottom PIC X(4) COMP-N.
    Inquire for the buttons window handle:
    INQUIRE button-handle SYSTEM-HANDLE IN SystemHandle.
    call "[EMAIL="user32.dll@WINAPI"]user32.dll@WINAPI[/EMAIL]".
    CALL "GetWindowRect" USING BY VALUE SystemHandle BY REFERENCE RECT.
    DISPLAY WINDOW SCREEN LINE POS-TOP SCREEN COLUMN POS-LEFT.

    I haven't tried this, but in theory it should work, let me know if it does. :-)
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2011]

    Hi There,

    I am using Extend 9.0.0 at the moment and am looking at ways to position floating windows dynamically.

    I have a form with many fields. Each of the fields has a button which when pressed calls another separate program. This program (helppgm), displays a hierarchial menu in its own floating window.

    When helppgm is displayed, it displays in the centre of the main window. Is there a way to display it in the vicinity of the pressed button (control-value) that initiated the call ?

    Thank-you.

    Julie
    great thanks for the feedback. Will give it ago and let you know.

    Cheers.
    D

    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2011]

    Hi There,

    I am using Extend 9.0.0 at the moment and am looking at ways to position floating windows dynamically.

    I have a form with many fields. Each of the fields has a button which when pressed calls another separate program. This program (helppgm), displays a hierarchial menu in its own floating window.

    When helppgm is displayed, it displays in the centre of the main window. Is there a way to display it in the vicinity of the pressed button (control-value) that initiated the call ?

    Thank-you.

    Julie
    great thanks for the feedback. Will give it ago and let you know.

    Cheers.
    D

    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 20 January 2011]

    Hi There,

    I am using Extend 9.0.0 at the moment and am looking at ways to position floating windows dynamically.

    I have a form with many fields. Each of the fields has a button which when pressed calls another separate program. This program (helppgm), displays a hierarchial menu in its own floating window.

    When helppgm is displayed, it displays in the centre of the main window. Is there a way to display it in the vicinity of the pressed button (control-value) that initiated the call ?

    Thank-you.

    Julie
    great thanks for the feedback. Will give it ago and let you know.

    Cheers.

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