FireFly 1.09

[TechSupport]

Please refer to topic: http://www.planetsquires.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1133

[Paul D. Elliott]

Paul,

I just installed v1.09 update and have a problem. The project that I've
been working on ( tab with 9 tabs on it ) no longer starts up correctly.
It first shows the 3rd tab screen instead of the 1st and until I click thru
the tabs at the top from 1 to 3 the screen won't show the correct screen
( or tab ).  But if I tab thru the fields on what should be the first tab the
fields show up.

If this isn't making enough sense then ask and I'll try some more to
narrow down the problem. If you still have the files that I had sent before,
you might be able to reproduce what I'm seeing.

Thanks.

[Paul D. Elliott]

I just put v1.08 back and re-built and it works. so something got slightly
busted in the new rev.

[TechSupport]

Hi Paul,

The only thing in this area that got changed was the setting in the Project Properties dialog that sets which Form is the Startup Form. Any Form that has  its property set to be a Tab Control child Form is excluded from that list.

You may want to check the Startup Form option in 'Project Properties' to see if you have it set to the main form of your project.

[Paul D. Elliott]

Yes, the startup form is set correctly. I only have the 1 main form. the
rest are for tab children. I even moved a couple fields around and
exited FF then restarted FF. it didn't make any difference.

[Paul D. Elliott]

just did comparison of FF output files and found a difference.
in the tab-child-form's inc file, under the "form"_show function, in the
"If ShowModalFlag = ..."  
below "While GetMessage" loop, v1.09 adds an
"Else
   ShowWindow ....."  

if this is removed then it looks like it goes back to the way it was. I only
changed the 3rd form's inc file and it still displayed the 2nd form. but this
should be enough to point in the right direction.

maybe?

[TechSupport]

Hi Paul,

You were exactly right. I have made the corrections to the source generation for Forms that are Tab Control children. I have re-uploaded the FireFly 1.09 package.

[Paul D. Elliott]

Paul,

Thanks. It's looking ok now.

[James Klutho]

Paul

The deletion problem seems to be fixed but when I tried to run the SIGrid demo I get a GPF loading the project.  This is on my laptop which runs Win98SE.

Just a thought (wish), although not in the strict realm of a tool like FireFly, it would be a nice touch to add a "Code Snippet Vault" within handy reach so the user could paste in favorite code pieces.  It would probably be pretty easy to implement.  Thanks Paul.