Hi Tracy,
No, that's not it. I use thisform.lockscreen now. It was something
more "nifty" or "crafty" with his approach.
I don't have any issues really; was just trying to remember what was
"cool" about his trick/tip that was better than Thisform.refresh. Just
curiosity.
Thanks,
--Mike
On 5/7/2019 4:20 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:
Both ThisForm and _Screen have the LockScreen property.
If you are updating a lot of things, you can flip it to .T. then flip it back
to .F. when done.
Remember, if you _Screen.LockScreen, then the user moves the form, it leaves
bits of the form outline behind.
I've never changed the visibility of _Screen after I made it visible.
Oh, if there is an ActiveX object on the form, LockScreen does nothing to help
it. Some of them may expose the right hWnd value to allow you to use the API
for it.
HTH,
Tracy
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MB Software
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Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 4:04 PM
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Subject: Old Andy Kramek trick from WhilFest years ago...I can't recall exactly
how he said it
Years ago (2003?) at WhilFest (Great Lakes Great Databases Workshop),
speaker and Fox great Andy Kramek showed us some cool alternate
refresh/repaint routine, and I think it was where he said LockScreen =
.T. and then set the _screen.visible = .F., but can't recall.
Does anybody remember that? This is one of those things that has always
bugged me and I wanted to get resolution on it.
tia,
--Mike
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