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    How To: opening form based on formnames stored in database

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    i need to pas the string of the datasebase field showform (it can be show of showmodal)

    to the FORM.

    But something like this is not working

    Form.+table.fieldbyname('howtoshowform').asString;

    or

    Form+'.'+table.fieldbyname('howtoshowform').asstring;

    or with

    quotedStr(table.fieldbyname('howtoshowform').asString

    i can do something like this but there must be a more elegant way

    if table.fieldbyname('howtoshowform').value = 'show' then
       form.show
    else
      form.showmodal

    How To: opening form based on formnames stored in database

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    Hi,

    My application contains around 90 tables for lookup use. Because I do not want to put this in a menu - it is getting too large,
    I want to do this in a database.The user sees a dbgrid with 2 columns:
    - table name as I would in the menu, for example, Type Payment
    - explanation in the form of a short sentence  

    When the user double clicks on a line, the screen must be opened.In the database I save:
    - FormName (formTypePayment) or frmTypePayment (file name)
    - how to open 'show' or 'showmodal'

    So the form is already part of the application and normally I would call it FormTypePayment.show as follows
     

    How can I do this based on the data in the database?

    send sms

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    The easiest way is bulksms.com. my example is based on bulksms and works great. Send every day about  200 sms with a unigui and vgl application.

    Just  create an account with  bulksms and use my example. Replace the dummy username and password with your bulksms account and you van send messages

    HowTo: bring opened form to front

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    Hi Sherzod

    When trying :

      if UniMainModule.GetFormInstance(TFormTableBank, False)<>nil then begin
         FormTableBank.WebForm.JSInterface.JSCall('toFront', []);
      end;

    or 

         FormTableBank.WebForm.JSInterface.JSCall('toFront', []);
     

    is NOT working

     

    Is there a need for a (structured) uniGui WIKI?

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    Hi

    The forum offers a lot of information / solutions ... but unfortunately distributed and not grouped.
    Is there a need for a structured wiki among you where you can find solutions at component level,

    Example:

    Several questions have been asked about a page control.
    So there will be a PageControl topic where you can find all the solutions
    related to the pagecontrol such as tab height, width, color and so on.

    If there's enough interest, i want to set this up with the help of all of us.
     

    For example one of those knowledge bases :


    Regards

    Peter

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    HowTo: bring opened form to front

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    Hi,

    The user can  open the forms from within the menu. So he opens first FORM-1 then FORM-2 and then FORM-3

    When  he clicks on the menu option ''FORM-2'', -which is already opened,  than this

    opened form has to be on the foreground.

    In VLC you can do something like :

    Quote

    if (not Assigned (Form2)) then begin
       Form2 := TForm2.Create(Application);
    end;
    Form2.Show;
    if (Assigned(Form2)) then begin
       ShowWindow(Form2.Handle, sw_restore);
    end;


    How can it be done in uniGui?

    Regards Peter

    Design question / your experience / advice

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    Hi

    I am going to convert my 2nd vcl application within the next 6-9 months to uniGui. My first application is designed the more traditional way whereby
    forms are opened like with a vcl application.For my second application I want to see if another approach offers more benefits,
    This second application is also a large application with around 140-160 forms and tables. Many tables are often filled once and used as kind of a lookup table.
    I have separate forms for each table for maintenance.
     

    Here are a few design questions:

    • what do you mainly use ... forms / frames and why?
    • how do you open forms / frames, is this, for example, each time on a separate tab or within the same tab and do you close an existing form?
    • what is the advantage of such a model versus the vcl-like way where you can open multiple forms at the same time, for example
    • what is the best way to do that if you choose to load forms into separate tabs so that you have control over the opened form / frame?
    • if you have a form to maintain a table, for example, do you open it as a show / show modal on the screen or also in a separate tab?
    • the look-and-feel of a small form (with for example 4 fields / 2 buttons) in a full screen tab is often not nice compared to displaying that form
      through show / show modal because you adjust the form format to the amount of components ... how do you solve that ?.
    • how do you design with regard to the different screen resolutions and how do you ensure that everything stays on the form?
    • is there an example 'framework' how to build this, by which I mean for example mainform, menu, pagecontrol to open the tabs in it and that it also looks neat / professional.

    Both variants have advantages and disadvantages and combinations are of course also possible. The biggest disadvantage of opening everything in separate tabs is that
    it quickly becomes unclear for i user (i think).Especially when you get so many tabs that you get multiple rows and 2 rows of tabs on your screen.
    On the other hand, multiple forms on your screen can also be tricky, but you can minimize them. What I don't want is that the user cannot do multiple things at the same
    time and must be able to switch within a number of important forms.

    What are your experiences, tips, tricks, suggestions, examples

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