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olddog
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Popup Menu Position
Jan 18th, 2009 at 1:18am
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i have a tabular subform.  want to use popup menu to select data to fill in record.  i used the follow in statement to position it.

PopupSelectPosition(4,@XPos(ThisElement),@YPos(ThisElement))

it showed up in upper right corner.  when i checked the xpos and ypos they are zero.  why and what can i do besides hard coding the position to get the popup menu when i want it?
  
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Re: Popup Menu Position
Reply #1 - Jan 26th, 2009 at 1:01am
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Where is the programming for this?

If it is in a form trigger, and not an element, then it will not be correct.
You may need to Set the element to make sure you are getting the one with the coordinates that you want.

SetThisElement(element_name)
PopupSelectPosition(4,@XPos(ThisElement),@YPos(ThisElement))
UnSetThisElement()
  


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Re: Popup Menu Position
Reply #2 - Jan 26th, 2009 at 5:39pm
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olddog wrote on Jan 18th, 2009 at 1:18am:
i have a tabular subform.  want to use popup menu to select data to fill in record.  i used the follow in statement to position it.

PopupSelectPosition(4,@XPos(ThisElement),@YPos(ThisElement))

it showed up in upper right corner.  when i checked the xpos and ypos they are zero.  why and what can i do besides hard coding the position to get the popup menu when i want it?

Yes, this can be a problem when calling it from within a table-view subform. I have had to hard code the position using mode 3 instead. Like this:
PopupSelectPosition(3, 415, 400)
  

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Re: Popup Menu Position
Reply #3 - Jan 29th, 2009 at 1:32am
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Thanks for the suggestions.

I think I found an ugly work around.  I created an non visible unbound text box on the parent form, aligned with subform.  I save its xpos and ypos to global values.  Then in the subform code I set the popup position with those global values.
  
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