Get(WindowTop)

[Stickybeak]

I am trying to use the top of one window to move the top of another window to the same spot.

I set a global variable using Get(WindowTop) then call a script in the second window with a resize step and set the top field to "$$top" - it doesn't work.....

Can one use global variables in the resize dialogue?

[Matthew F]

When you call the script for the second window is it part of the same database or is it in a second file? Global variables can be passed from one script to another in a single database but not to a script in an external database.

Otherwise a global variable should work fine to resize or move a window.

[Stickybeak]

different file

ok so why cant the resize look up a field in the original database ?

thanks for the input

[Rick Whitelaw]

Variables are not passed between files. However, you can pass a variable as a Script Parameter between files.

RW

[Stickybeak]

Im going to see what I can do with script parameters but in the meantime I accomplished what i wanted to copy and pasting from field in DB1 using scripts in DB2 and then picking up those pasted values in the resize dialogue - its pretty clumsy and I dont want to keep doing it for every file in the solution.

[Matthew F]

ok so why cant the resize look up a field in the original database ?

I'm not sure how you would do that. Get(WindowTop) only applies to the current window.

Instead of using a global variable save the results of Get(WindowTop) to a global field in the external database. Then call the external script, open the new window and use the global field in a move/resize step.

[bruceR]

different file

ok so why cant the resize look up a field in the original database ?

It can. And even more easily if it is a global field. Also note that you do not need to call a script in window 2. Scripts in window 1 can move the windows for file window 2.

WMove.zip

Edited November 22, 2010 by Guest

[Stickybeak]

hmmmmmm-this is what I was trying to do - I will need to see where I was going wrong

Thanks for the effort