I have to give a huge shout out to
InspectorJester what a smart kid, with his help I was able to get a Form Editor, functioning popup at the beginning of my program to choose different ops to run inside the program. I hope he takes the time to share with everyone that does not know this. Now I myself made it look fancy, but he helped me get it to function. Thank You Jester. Not done with it yet, but there's a taste of my finally functional buttons
Ok sometime
InspectorJester will guide you through how to get your buttons to function correctly, If he for some reason misses anything. I will dumb it down for the rest of us or fill in the blanks. As for now, I can help make it look a little more presentable, but be WARNED. When you put this on other computers(CMM) or even offline. You have to redo this for every step. So I began with a Border and inside there I put 4 buttons, called them B_20, B_30 and so on. They need to be in there together. So they can relate to Jesters instructions. Save 2 copies of the form one without bitmaps and one with. The one with will be dedicated to that computer. The other one will be a setup one for other computers.
As you can see not that pretty so I found some BMP pictures of buttons online. Once you get those click on the (none) part to the right.
The Bitmap dialog pops up and find your fancy button to the left there. choose your picture.
Hit OK. and wa-la. Prettier button
Now the reason I said one copy with out bitmaps and one with. One with stays with that computer, because the bitmaps have a path to the pictures you added. If you try to use on a different computer it CRASHES PC-DMIS. <<<<shocker right. Anyways just transfer the pictures with you and create it on each individual computer. Repeat all the steps I just showed you on the next computer.
UPDATE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO CREATE 2 COPIES, AS bfire85 STATED JUST UNCHECK THE LINK BOX AND EVERYTHING STICKS
Ok sometime
InspectorJester will guide you through how to get your buttons to function correctly, If he for some reason misses anything. I will dumb it down for the rest of us or fill in the blanks. As for now, I can help make it look a little more presentable, but be WARNED. When you put this on other computers(CMM) or even offline. You have to redo this for every step. So I began with a Border and inside there I put 4 buttons, called them B_20, B_30 and so on. They need to be in there together. So they can relate to Jesters instructions. Save 2 copies of the form one without bitmaps and one with. The one with will be dedicated to that computer. The other one will be a setup one for other computers.
As you can see not that pretty so I found some BMP pictures of buttons online. Once you get those click on the (none) part to the right.
The Bitmap dialog pops up and find your fancy button to the left there. choose your picture.
Hit OK. and wa-la. Prettier button
Now the reason I said one copy with out bitmaps and one with. One with stays with that computer, because the bitmaps have a path to the pictures you added. If you try to use on a different computer it CRASHES PC-DMIS. <<<<shocker right. Anyways just transfer the pictures with you and create it on each individual computer. Repeat all the steps I just showed you on the next computer.
UPDATE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO CREATE 2 COPIES, AS bfire85 STATED JUST UNCHECK THE LINK BOX AND EVERYTHING STICKS
When adding a BMP to the Form Editor, uncheck the LINK button. That way it stores it in the FORM and you don't need to transfer pictures from one computer to another.
Well I didn't even notice that check box. Thanks
bfire85. I guess my question why would that even be an option. You're going to the trouble of adding a picture and you might not want it there? that's what the clear button does. Anyways I will update this post. I thank you for that little bit of info BF
