Change parent of fill-in

[Vaalen]

I have a simple frame (FRAME-MAIN) and a few fill-in's. Their parent is FRAME-MAIN. Now I have to make another frame (FRAME-1) and the fill-ins need to be parented to FRAME-1 instead of FRAME-MAIN.

Is there an easy way to do this?

 

[gcampbell]

What environment - GUI or CHUI? Are you using the AppBuilder?

Do you need to programattically change (dynamically) or statically change (forever?)?

 

[Vaalen]

Sorry. Gui, 9.1E. Just statically change.

 

[gcampbell]

THen you can cut-and-paste them from one frame to another frame.


use the CTRL key and the button to select the widgets you want to move from frame a. Select "CUT" from the 'Edit' menu. Move to Frame B, and then select 'PASTE' from the 'Edit' menu.

This should copy all your widgets from Frame a to frame b.

 

[Vaalen]

Thanks. I hoped I did not have to use cut and paste....

I just got another tip. Create frame a and use an editor like notapad to just change the source. This also works.

 

[jongpau]

Or pop the fields you want to display / update in an include file and you can use them as often as you like in any frame. Of course such an action may not be 100% AppBuilder friendly, but it saves you using something like Notepad to edit code (by the way, Progress does have a Procedure Editor) :awink: