firefly newbie: where do I put dll inits?

[Shawn Anderson]

Though I bought FireFly last year I just really starting using FireFly today.
I've only used PBForms before (DDT).
I'd like to say that in about a half hour I was pretty comfortable with creating my multi-tabbed form. I can see FireFly is going to save me some time (thanks Paul).

Anyway, I have a dumb question:
I plan to use sqlTools with this particular program.

Normally I would put the command to open the database and close the database in the pbmain function. Same goes with other tools inits (like socket tools). Where do I put that stuff now?



thanks

[Elias Montoya]

You can do init stuff in FF_WINMAIN or in the XX_WM_CREATE of your main form, and to shutdown anything on close, you can use XX_WM_DESTROY on the main form.

[Shawn Anderson]

perfect, thanks elias

[Paul Squires]

I can see FireFly is going to save me some time (thanks Paul).

Thanks Shawn! I appreciate it.

Elias is spot on with his answer.

[Shawn Anderson]

next question

nevermind.... it was me this time

[Shawn Anderson]

listview

I'm not sure I'm implementing my listview correctly with firefly.

I want to return the value of whatever is in the the leftmost field of the selected row when clicked upon.

Function CLIENT_CLIENTLISTVIEW_WM_LBUTTONDOWN ( _
                                              ControlIndex  As Long,  _  ' index in Control Array
                                              hWndForm      As Dword, _  ' handle of Form
                                              hWndControl   As Dword, _  ' handle of Control
                                              MouseFlags    As Long,  _  ' virtual keys that are pressed
                                              xPos          As Long,  _  ' x-coordinate of cursor
                                              yPos          As Long   _  ' y-coordinate of cursor
                                              ) As Long

	Local clientID As String
	Local lvIndex As Long       
                                         
                                             
	 lvIndex = ListView_GetNextItem( hwnd_client_clientListview, -1, %LVNI_SELECTED )+1   
	 
	 If lvIndex> 0 Then  
    
	 	ListView Get Text hwnd_client, idc_client_clientListview, lvIndex, 1 To clientID
	 
	 	MsgBox clientID   

	 End If                                                                                          

End Function

when I click on the listview data, it grabs what is currently selected, then moves focus onto what was clicked, if that makes sense.

What am I doing wrong?

[Shawn Anderson]

I changed the trigger from lbuttondown to lbuttonup and that works better, but I still have to double click.

It feels like I'm doing something wrong....

[Shawn Anderson]

OK, I've added itemchanged, and that seems to work like I expect.
It also works with the arrow buttons.

thoughts?

[Paul Squires]

Definitely - use the LVN_ITEMCHANGED. That is the actual Listview notification that gets sent to the Form when an item has been clicked on in the ListView. Using the LBUTTONDOWN/LBUTTONUP messages is not the best choice for this scenario.

Function FORM1_LISTVIEW1_LVN_ITEMCHANGED ( _
                                         ControlIndex  As Long,            _  ' index in Control Array
                                         hWndForm      As Dword,           _  ' handle of Form
                                         hWndControl   As Dword,           _  ' handle of Control
                                         ByVal lpNMV   As NM_LISTVIEW Ptr  _  ' pointer to NM_LISTVIEW
                                         ) As Long

End Function

If you want to deal with the current item row *prior* to it changing to the newly selected row then use the LVN_ITEMCHANGING message handler.

[Paul Squires]

Shawn - don't forget to take a look at the FireFly Forums over on the PlanetSquires site. Lots of questions asked and answered over there about the various controls. http://planetsquires.com/support/index.php

[Elias Montoya]

Shawn - don't forget to take a look at...

Also take a look at the goodies on the F8 key.

[Shawn Anderson]

Awesome, thanks!