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K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity Expert
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August 10, 2022
Question

How to determie switch from document to book window

  • August 10, 2022
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I have set up notifications to determine the switch between book and document for these triggers:

105 FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange
   2 FA_Note_PostOpenDoc
 77 FA_Note_PostBookComponentOpen
 17 FA_Note_PostOpenBook

Now, when switching between nothing (aka Welcome screen), book window and document window I get mixed results.

  • Nothing → Book: Notify is triggered by FA_Note_PostOpenBook
  • Nothing → Open document: Notify is triggered by FA_Note_PostOpenDoc and
    FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange
  • Document → Open Book: Notify is triggered by FA_Note_PostOpenBook
  • Book → Document: Notify triggered by FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange
  • Document → Book: Notify is not triggered. Which constant is required?

 

Any ideas, how determine whether I have left the document window and entered the book window?

 

There must be a method. The open FM Find/Change dialog switches from document to book indication when I leave the document window and click into the book window.

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Russ Ward
Legend
August 12, 2022

Hi Klaus, on FM2019 I see FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange triggered for every combination that you list. In fact, it is sometime triggered multiple times when switching to and from "nothing."

 

How are you testing this? I did something very simple... I imagine you are doing the same.

 

Notification(Constants.FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange , true);

 

. . .

 

function Notify(note, object, sparam, iparam)
{
  switch (note)
  {
    case Constants.FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange:
      alert("Doc change");
      break;

  }

}

 

When testing, I would recommend that you restart FM between any change in notification setup. I feel that I have experienced unpredictable behavior trying to change notifications while FM is running.

 

Russ

K.Daube
Community Expert
K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
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August 12, 2022

Thank You, Russ, for your comments

«When testing, I would recommend that you restart FM between any change in notification setup.»

Yes this is absolutely essential - and it seems to be also important to close FM orderly so that

    case Constants.FA_Note_PreQuitSession:
      KLD_F.RemoveNotifications ();
      break;

is also executed and the notifications be removed. I have found that they survive if FM is just killed.

I have tested again:

Both a book and a document are open

Activating (cklich into) the book window does not trigger FA_Note_PostActiveDocChange. Leaving the document focus obviously is not a "change", although the document is no more active.

Activating the document of course does.

I have no idea how to get a notification when the user leaves the document and enters the book window. In a Find panel the radio buttons ("find in")  Book or Document should be automatically set from the situation (FM standard Find/Repl does).

R
Russ Ward
Legend
August 12, 2022

Hi Klaus, I just checked again to be sure. I get notification when I leave the document and enter the book window. In fact, I get a double notification. I did not investigate why there are two. Maybe I'm getting your notification by accident 🙂

 

Jokes aside, I'm not sure what else to say, what could be different from your setup. As a reminder, I'm using FM2019, but I don't suspect that has anything to do with it.

 

Russ

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