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[Pythoncard-users] keep windows on top!

[tjerk h. <tj...@br...>]

I really am  making progress with pythoncard..thanks everbody who =
contributes.
The Pythoncard editor is the best around, and other RADS like =
boa-constructor sucks.
By the way I also like reportlab to make PDF files...but thats another =
issue.
And for the list of honour I would like to recommend standalone Builder  =
it works !!
But help me resolve these issues:
my application has 20 childwindows wich I create at startup and make =
invisible, when I need them
i change them to visible. OK it works but there are 2 issues...
1) When the application starts you see flickering of all the windows =
being created and then disappear,
        rather ugly..Any suggestion?
2) Lets say that from the Mainwindow I call a childwindow, and then some =
widget in the childwindow calls a Dialog
    when the Dialog is done with, the childwindow is hidden behind the =
Mainwindow..is there any way to keep her op Top?

Thanks for reading, keep posting so that everybody knows we are alive.

Tjerk Hoekstra
Castro  Brazil

Re: [Pythoncard-users] keep windows on top!

[Phil E. <ph...@li...>]

tjerk hoekstra wrote:
> *my application has 20 childwindows wich I create at startup and make 
> invisible, when I need them*
> *i change them to visible. OK it works but there are 2 issues...*
> *1) When the application starts you see flickering of all the windows 
> being created and then disappear,*
> *        rather ugly..Any suggestion?*

In the resource editor, click on 'Edit' then 'Background Info'. Make 
sure that the 'Visible on Startup' box is not ticked. All your child 
windows will be created as normal but will not appear until you make a 
call to something like myChildWindow.Show(). This ought to fix the 
flicering.

> *2) Lets say that from the Mainwindow I call a childwindow, and then 
> some widget in the childwindow calls a Dialog*
> *    when the Dialog is done with, the childwindow is hidden behind the 
> Mainwindow..is there any way to keep her op Top?*

Not sure about this one, I don't see this happening on my machine. Do 
you have some example code you can post here?


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Regards

Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK

Re: [Pythoncard-users] keep windows on top!

[Phil E. <ph...@li...>]

Phil Edwards wrote:
> tjerk hoekstra wrote:
>> *my application has 20 childwindows wich I create at startup and make 
>> invisible, when I need them*
>> *i change them to visible. OK it works but there are 2 issues...*
>> *1) When the application starts you see flickering of all the windows 
>> being created and then disappear,*
>> *        rather ugly..Any suggestion?*
> 
> In the resource editor, click on 'Edit' then 'Background Info'. Make 
> sure that the 'Visible on Startup' box is not ticked. All your child 
> windows will be created as normal but will not appear until you make a 
> call to something like myChildWindow.Show(). This ought to fix the 
> flicering.
> 

Hmmm....this reply doesn't actually explain what I meant, my apologies.

Load up the PythonCard resource editor. For each of your child windows, 
open the resource file associated with it. Click 'Edit' then click 
'Background info'. Make sure that the 'visible at startup' box is not 
ticked. Save the resource file if necessary. Move on to the next one.

You should now find that when you run your main application, the 
'flickering windows' effect has gone away. If you have added code in the 
on_initialize() section of your application to hide all of your child 
windows, you can remove these lines as they are no longer needed.

Hope that's a bit clearer.

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Regards

Phil Edwards
Brighton, UK