Hi everybody,

when using resizable screens, it's a good idea to positioning controls with "column plus 1".

Unfortunately, this is not possible in the screen designer in the workbench. Only absolute numerical values can be entered here.
I can handle this when I enter "additional properties" "col plus 1".
This also works, but the compiler generates "Warning: Repeated or conflicting option".
Can this be prevented?

Also the generated code does not look nice:

 

              05 la-lan-iso-2, Label,
                 COL 44,50, LINE 14,60, LINES 1,30 CELLS,
                 SIZE 2,70 CELLS,
                 FONT IS Small-Font, ID IS 1,
                 LABEL-OFFSET 0, NO-KEY-LETTER, TITLE lan-iso-2,
                 TRANSPARENT,
                 col plus 3.

That is an interesting dilema. When you use the screen designer, the designer uses the coordinates where you placed your control. Currently I see two options, for each control you can specify a column-variable, you would in some before procedure increase these values by 1. Option 2, have you looked at the Layout Manager - A layout manager is a specialized piece of software that is attached to a window and that manages the placement and size of controls in that window. We have customers using the Layout Manager when dealing with resizable screens.

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Hi everybody,

when using resizable screens, it's a good idea to positioning controls with "column plus 1".

Unfortunately, this is not possible in the screen designer in the workbench. Only absolute numerical values can be entered here.
I can handle this when I enter "additional properties" "col plus 1".
This also works, but the compiler generates "Warning: Repeated or conflicting option".
Can this be prevented?

Also the generated code does not look nice:

 

              05 la-lan-iso-2, Label,
                 COL 44,50, LINE 14,60, LINES 1,30 CELLS,
                 SIZE 2,70 CELLS,
                 FONT IS Small-Font, ID IS 1,
                 LABEL-OFFSET 0, NO-KEY-LETTER, TITLE lan-iso-2,
                 TRANSPARENT,
                 col plus 3.

Note that relative positioning, COL x and LINE x, are not recommended for Thin Client and AcuToWeb implementations. The use of relative positioning creates more network traffic to draw the screen, and therefore will lower performance.

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Hi everybody,

when using resizable screens, it's a good idea to positioning controls with "column plus 1".

Unfortunately, this is not possible in the screen designer in the workbench. Only absolute numerical values can be entered here.
I can handle this when I enter "additional properties" "col plus 1".
This also works, but the compiler generates "Warning: Repeated or conflicting option".
Can this be prevented?

Also the generated code does not look nice:

 

              05 la-lan-iso-2, Label,
                 COL 44,50, LINE 14,60, LINES 1,30 CELLS,
                 SIZE 2,70 CELLS,
                 FONT IS Small-Font, ID IS 1,
                 LABEL-OFFSET 0, NO-KEY-LETTER, TITLE lan-iso-2,
                 TRANSPARENT,
                 col plus 3.

Thanks for your reply.
I had been dealing with layout manager more than 10 years ago. Probably I had the functionality not properly understood or the LM did not work properly. Anyway, the layout manager is, of course, the right solution. Thank you for that information.

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