I'm curious as to how to correctly add an existing form to a project.
Basically I want to set up a standard size form with labels showing user
info / date & time / other system data along with certain buttons to
perform certain functions. Once I have these all laid out the way I and
the customer agree upon, I would like to be able to use that form as the
startup form for each project. However if I just do a simple "Add existing
form" then any changes are made to my original form file -- not the copy
that is for the current project. also changing the form name on the
property box doesn't change the functions in the source.
Is there a way within FireFly of doing this? Or should I continue to
manually copy & rename the .frm & .frx files and do a search/replace to
get the new form name into the source?
Thanks.
Hi Paul,
I think that the "best" method is the method that you're now using - copy the form and frx file to a new name and import that file into the new project followed by a search and replace. Tedious, but works.
Ok. I was just slightly surprised that changing the name of the form from
the property box didn't fix the function names. just guessing that it did
change the IDs & handles or maybe they got fixed by the global
search/replace. whatever.
maybe something for v4?