Kbase P10845: How to minimize or maximize a window using the WINDOW-STATE attribute
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
11/7/2007 |
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Status: Verified
GOAL:
How to programmatically resize a window to full screen?
GOAL:
How to programmatically maximize a window to whole screen?
GOAL:
How to programmatically minimize a window?
GOAL:
How to minimize or maximize a window using the WINDOW-STATE attribute
GOAL:
How to programmatically restore a window that has been minimized by a user?
FACT(s) (Environment):
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge 10.x
All Supported Operating Systems
FIX:
A programmer often wants to minimize or maximize a PROGRESS window within the 4GL. This can be accomplished using the WINDOW-STATE attribute.
This attribute is an integer and accept 1, 2 and 3 as value:
1) WINDOW-MAXIMIZED - The window has been maximized to fill the entire display.
2) WINDOW-MINIMIZED - The window has been minimized (iconified).
3) WINDOW-NORMAL - The window is in the "restored" state. Initially, this refers to a state that is neither maximized nor minimized. However, setting WINDOW-STATE to WINDOW-NORMAL restores the window to its previous state, which may be the maximized, minimized, or neither.
For example, the following statement will minimize the currently active window:
CURRENT-WINDOW:WINDOW-STATE = WINDOW-MINIMIZED.
Before doing this, it might be advisable to save the handle of the current window to a variable so that the windows original state can be restored at a later point in the code.