Form Problem

You cannot call a command like hiCreateAppForm while your form is open. It sounds like your code is trying to recreate your form every time you call it. Rather than recreating the form every time, you should simply create the form once and store off the form id in a global variable. Then subsequent calls to the program can call hiDisplayForm(). If there is some dynamic nature to this form such that it needs to be recreated every time with different information on it, then you can use commands like:

hiIsFormDisplayed
hiFormCancel

Derek

Thanks for your answer!! The form needs to be recreated every time with different information and this information is given by the selected instance.

I used this:

if( (k = hiIsFormDisplayed(theForm)) then
        hiFormCancel(theForm)
    )

before I used  hiDisplayForm() but I recieved the same error messages.

Thank you!

Without seeing your code, I'm not sure why that bit of code didn't work. I tested in my CIW with a form open and the form was properly closed. Anyway, if you want multiple forms, then you need to specify a different symbol in the ?name field during the form creation every time you build the form. The best way to do that is with the gensym command.

gensym("myform")
'myform0
gensym("myform")
'myform1

Derek

 Derek,

Did this break or change? I am now seeing the warning posted here. Below is my update procdure.

 procedure(UpdateForm()
    let(()
        printf("UpdateForm\n")
        if(k = hiIsFormDisplayed(myForm)
       then
            hiFormCancel(myForm)
            myForm()
        ); if hiIsFormDisplayed
    ); let
); procedure UpdateForm

I suspect this may be due to some blocking behaviour of your form - and would probably need to see the whole code to be sure of understanding what the issue is. Can you post a complete example which shows the problem? That minimizes the risk of incorrect guesswork in trying to reproduce the problem.

Regards,

Andrew.