I reported some time ago that Form Designer is freezing up on me after I change any event. This lockup requires that I reboot my system and basically start over. This has been a major hinderance that has completely prevented me from using 4.02.

I have just made a discovery in 4.02 that may help lead to a permenant solution. I have learned that only windows that are using Group Controls and being affected by this freezing bug. If I remove the Group Controls and replace them with standaed BMP images, then the problem seems to go away.

Eric H. Hilder

Innovative Billing Solutions

Eric-

How many group boxes did you have on a form?

How many pages?

How many control?

Data-bound or Dialog box?

Thanks-

Mike

Similar problem in form designer.

using OI 4.0.1

Form has…

2 comboboxes surrounded by 1 groupbox.

1 edittable surrounded by 1 groupbox.

2 editlines

1 push button

here is what I found…

I will append new columns to the edittable, then delete the old columns. After ohhh about 4 times of replacing columns, it will freeze just after it completes appending and deleting. I do suppress redrawing during the process.

I use the following statements to append and delete the columns from within the edittable OMNIEVENT".

 COLUMN_COUNT=GET_PROPERTY(FOCUS,'LIMIT')

 LAST_VALUE=COUNT(COLUMNS,@FM) + (COLUMNS NE '')

 FOR VALUE=1 TO LAST_VALUE

   build the structure...

   RESULT=SEND_MESSAGE(FOCUS,'INSERTCOL',-1,STRUCT)

 NEXT VALUE

 FOR VALUE=1 TO COLUMN_COUNT

   RESULT=SEND_MESSAGE(FOCUS,'DELETECOL',1)

 NEXT VALUE

 START_COLUMN=' <- it hangs right here.

I thought it was due to the numerous times I am appending and deleting the columns in the edittable.

Anywhere from 1 to 5 group boxes, 5 - 100+ controls, both data and dialog boxes. All windows with the problem have only one thing in common. They all have at least one group control.

Eric H. Hilder

Innovative Billing Solutions

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