Dialog-box screen-position outside visible screen

[MDaanje]

Hello all,
Maybe I have a new challenge for some Progress 10.1A problemsolvers.

Description:
In a software application build in version 9 of Progress, I show
Dialog-boxes by displaying them first outside of the visible screen and
then relocate it to the visible part of the screen. This because then
you don't have all of the flashing while loading the dialog. This works
fine in 9.

Now I'm taking the step to Progress 10.1A. And there I can't display
the dialog-box outside the visible screen, which results in extra
flashing while loading. When displaying windows this problem doesn't
acure.

Can somebody help me with this problem? :dizzy:
Thanx

 

[smapdi636]

Hello all,
Maybe I have a new challenge for some Progress 10.1A problemsolvers.

Description:
In a software application build in version 9 of Progress, I show
Dialog-boxes by displaying them first outside of the visible screen and
then relocate it to the visible part of the screen. This because then
you don't have all of the flashing while loading the dialog. This works
fine in 9.

Now I'm taking the step to Progress 10.1A. And there I can't display
the dialog-box outside the visible screen, which results in extra
flashing while loading. When displaying windows this problem doesn't
acure.

Can somebody help me with this problem? :dizzy:
Thanx

Any chance you can use the hidden attribute of a window/dialog instead of positioning it offscreen?

 

[bulklodd]

Any chance you can use the hidden attribute of a window/dialog instead of positioning it offscreen?

VISIBLE does it as well

 

[MDaanje]

thanx for the reply, I think some explanation is required here.

The application is a transportplanningstool that uses more than 1 monitor, sometimes 3 monitors (and with different resolutions).

These dialog-boxes and windows contain several smartobjects. When using the hidden and visible attributes sometimes weird things happend, like for instance links between then got lost. That's why building them outside the visible part of the screen is the savest thing to do. I'll hope this explains something. But the question still remains "why can't I display a dialog-box outside the visible part of the screen". Everything worked in 9 why not in 10.