windows work differently in runtime

[davekirbawy]

When I use define window (in VFP7) which was included for backword compatibility I find it runs differently under runtime than under interactively. The runtime seems to create a "shorter window"

Any thoughts

 

[Mike Gagnon]

davekirbawy

I believe the desktop area (less the bottom gray area ) is calculated differently in VFP7.0, that might account for the difference, but may I suggest you move onto OOP type programming where things are measured in pixels.

Mike Gagnon

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[wgcs]

I think Mike's onto the problem: We have a relatively large application still using DEFINE WINDOW all over the place, and it works fine: However, the resulting size of the window is dependent on what fonts are selected for the Window and for _SCREEN.

If I remember right,

DEFINE WINDOW winName AT Row,Col SIZE Hig,Wid FONT fntName,ptsize

uses the _SCREEN font to calculate the AT position and the fntName/ptSize to calculate height and width,

while:

DEFINE WINDOW winName FROM top,lft TO bot,rgt FONT fntName,ptSize

uses the _SCREEN font for both top,lft and bot,rgt