Windows adjusting size during script

[MHAriete64]

I have a script that works the way I want on my MAC during development, but when deployed on a PC running Windows 98, accessing the solution on FMS 8.5 on a Windows 2000 server, it doesn't run the same.

Here's what it is supposed to do. From within the solution, the script opens a new window where I get some info from the user that I put into Global files to do some computations. Then that window closes, the computation runs and then the original window that was sitting in the background changes layouts to show the new records compiled from the computation.

When I move this over to the Windows 98 clients and run the script, things don't work the same. When the new window comes up in front of the original window the original window shrinks to either the same size as the new window [300x600] or what one might call a "standard" document size/shape. When the script completes, the original window that was previously the size of the screen is now whatever size it shrunk to when the New Window opened.

Any help? I hope this was informative enough. Do I need to add "Maximize" or "Restore" steps into the script when each new window is gone to, or something like that?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[bcooney]

Very common problem. On Windows, you cannot use Maximize window, because when you have a popup window, the original window will resize to its smallest size, as you've described. Use Resize to Fit instead.

[mr_vodka]

As Barbara said, this is common Windows issue. You also may want to take a look at this as another option.

http://www.kevinfrank.com/download/kf_wincontrol.zip