Update table in another mdi window

Hi
I have an MDI app and I have a table on the mdi parent window. I have made the mdi control or area, what ever you call it about the half the size as normal. Now when the user selects a row in the table on the mdi parent window I want to update the table in the mdi child window. Here's my code.


App.Race_Id = tblRaces.race_id
sAliasName is string = Win.QuickCaps
IF WinStatus(sAliasName)<>NotFound THEN
HCancelDeclaration(qryEntries)
HExecuteQuery(qryEntries, hQueryDefault + hModifyFile ,App.Race_Id)
TableDisplay(QuickCaps.tblEntries)
FileToScreen(QuickCaps)
END


I get the error that QuicCaps doesn't exist. Windows are not global to the app? I can use QuickCaps.tblEntries and it still errors out as you can see. How can I update a table on another window???? Much thanks for any help...

Hi John, an MDI application is pretty different to an SDI one. Though I believe that your idea just has a quirk and should work fine after a fix, there are some peculiarities in the interaction of windows in MDI which do not exist in SDI. E. g. in WD12 it does not work anymore to open a connection from an MDI-child. Up to WD11 the connection had been global and did not terminate when closing the window. Now, the connection is local to the MDI-child and will dissappear as soon as it is closed, the connection is hidden from the other windows. Everything in spite of a global connection variable!

Let's do a test project in order to verify this. Still WD11/US in use?

Regards,
Guenter

Hope you can help. Yes I am still using WD11. And Guenter I don't close the mdi window. Its just that in the mdi parent window I resize the mdi container to half the screen and when I open the mdi child it fits in only half the screen. Sort of like a internal window. I could use planes to accomplish what I need to do, but I would have a lot of them and it would take the window forever to load. But even if I used internal windows I would have the same problem.
Let me know what to do if you can help. Thanks so much.

John Marrone schrieb:
> Hi
> I have an MDI app and I have a table on the mdi parent window. I have made the mdi control or area, what ever you call it about the half the size as normal. Now when the user selects a row in the table on the mdi parent window I want to update the table in the mdi child window. Here's my code.
>
> App.Race_Id = tblRaces.race_id
> sAliasName is string = Win.QuickCaps
> IF WinStatus(sAliasName)NotFound THEN
> HCancelDeclaration(qryEntries)
> HExecuteQuery(qryEntries, hQueryDefault + hModifyFile ,App.Race_Id)
> TableDisplay(QuickCaps.tblEntries)
> FileToScreen(QuickCaps)
> END
>
> I get the error that QuicCaps doesn't exist. Windows are not global to the app? I can use QuickCaps.tblEntries and it still errors out as you can see. How can I update a table on another window???? Much thanks for any help...
>
>
Hm, I am still using WD11;
However, you should be able to post a message using a user-defined
message (WM_USER +1) from your MDI parent window to MDI child window(s).

PostMessage(hwndMDIChild, WM_USER +1, CurrentID, 0)

MDI child win. can process the msg. as follows :
hEvt is int = Event("UpdateTable", "*.", WM-USER+1)

Where UpdateTable should be defined like :
procedure UpdateTable(_message, wParam, lParam)
// wParam contains "in this case" CurrentID

HTH Bjoern
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