F-12 not working, why

rbuser

I'm using D6 and learning to use RB 6.0x.
One dummy question, why can't I use F12 key to jump from Design state
to Delphi Code editor?

My RB Design form fills most of the screen, and that's why I can't easily get
in touch to Form holding TppReport. I must first drag the Design window
few inches down and then I get to TppReport Form, and there I press the
old good F12 key to get to the Code editor.

I have done this dragging for couple of days now, but is there some other
shortcut available than F12 key? I could not find anything from the
manuals.

Also, is there some Search Engine available, to scan these newsgroups?

Google seems not cover these groups, if it would, I would probably have
found these beginner answers myself too. Thanks.

Pekka S.

nicocizik

Pekka,

When the ReportBuilder Designer is in focus, the complete Delphi IDE is
taken over. Therefore all shortcut keys will not work. The easiest way to
solve this is to just minimize the ReportBuilder window completely when it
is not in use, then use the F12 button to toggle between the form and code.
If you need your ReportBuilder Designer again, there will be a minimized
window in your bottom Windows toolbar that you can click to restore it.

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rbuser

Nico Cizik (Digital Metaphors) wrote:

Thanks for your answer. During the last weeks I have learned that RB
Designer has for instance its own Copy and Paste, alongside the
Delphi IDE Copy and Paste.

I still do not understand why the useful F-12 function key has been
completely taken away from Design window. Yet the F-11 key works as
expected, and brings you to the Object Inspector.

It's much easier, and more frendly for a stressed mouse wrist
to use single toggle key to switch between Forms, than continuously
first point the cursor and then shoot.


Do you mean to use the standard Windows upper right corner button to
minimize the RB Design Window to toolbar??


With my D6 + RB 6.x and W98 this does not minimize the RB Design
window to toolbar, but closes it completely. Then I have to double
click the ppReport component to open the Designer again.
I also have W2k, but that probably would not change this behaviour.

When writing RB reports, I usually have to toggle between all the
three windows,
-RB Component Form that holds ppDBPipeline, ppReport etc. components
-RB Design window,
-and the Code Editor window.
And of course Object Inspector as fourth one, but currently F-11
brings me there easily.

Looks like there is no toggle key even to move between RB's own
two windowses, the Design window and RB Component Form, or is
there?

Does anyone know if Delphi IDE + RB offers possibilities so that
I could myself define some toggle keys? Like for instance ALT-M
would switch me between RB Designer and Code editor?

I wonder if no one else beside me misses the standard F-12 toggle
behaviour?

Pekka S.

rbuser

I miss the the standard F12 toggle behaviour too

Lars.

nicocizik

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll put it on our to-do list.

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nicocizik

Pekka,

It turns out that the F12 function to toggle between the code and form
windows is much more difficult to implement than the other "shortcut"
functions. In ReportBuilder 7, we did improve the minimizing capability by
letting the Report Designer, Explorer, and Preview windows minimize to the
Windows toolbar. F12 support is on our current to-do list.
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