Bringing a field to the front in runtime

[Michael Mantkowski]

Hi Scotte,

How about creating your sub window object at runtime as well and then assigning its attributes via notation?

If the goal is to have it have the most recent $order this should take care of it.

Another way, create a sub window template that has all the attributes you want but make it invisible.  When you have need for the sub window you can make a copy of it via notation (so that is will be the most current in field order) and then change the $visible attribute to kTrue.  After you are done with it you could either $remove the sub window or make if invisible again for later use.

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-----Original Message-----
From: omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com> On Behalf Of Scotte Meredith
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2018 1:26 PM
To: OmnisDev List - English <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
Subject: Re: Bringing a field to the front in runtime

Hi, Paul —

I was trying a new interface and wanted a subwindow field within the window to overlay everything in the window covering it all up. Trying to do it generically rather than for a specific window. I thought I could force the $order to a higher number to bring it to the front on top of everything else, but no good. You can’t change the $order after the window has started to open.




> On Dec 31, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Paul Manning via omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:
> 
> Scotte,
> Is this something that could be accomplished in a paged pane? or do 
> you need to see the other fields behind
> 
> Paul
> 
> ************************************************
> Paul R. Manning
> paulrmanning58 at icloud.com <mailto:paulrmanning58 at icloud.com>
> 
> 
>> On Dec 31, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Scotte Meredith <spomacguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I had thought you could change the field order at runtime, but apparently not.
>> 
>> Any ideas on how to bring a field to the front on top of everything else at runtime? 
>> 
>> I want to become an overlay for everything else. I thought I’d done this at some time in the past.
>> 
>> 
>> Scotte Meredith
>> SpoMacGuy at gmail.com
>> 
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