RE: A design philosophy question

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In answer to your specific question: What are the pros and cons of having a 
display file in a module?

I've found a lot of problems with having two different display files open at 
the same time.  No matter what combination of overlay, protect, window, etc... 
the 2nd display file always seems to have problems windowing over a previously 
open display file.  I had one project where I had to fix such a bug a while 
back, and you may have seen the thread where I was trying to work it out.  For 
the life of me I couldn't get it to resolve and I wound up putting all the 
screens from the 2nd display file into the first one and was done with it, no 
bugs.

There may be a work around, and I'm sure that a display file expert (which I'm 
not) could of solved it quickly.  It was a subfile display in a window that was 
causing the problems, BTW.

So, if you decide to go this route, I would suggest that you don't window the 
screen in the module but make it full screen, then you shouldn't have any 
problems.

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]

<SNIP>

...  What are the opros and cons of having a display file in a module? ...
bit easier.

So, please, I'd be interested to hear what you think.  Any comments about AG
usage in this scenario would be appreciated as well.

Joe

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