Form Maintenance
The following program description deals with:
- Remarks on the Program Function
- Remarks on the Input Fields
- Use the Index to find the field details required.
Remarks on the Program Function
Via this program you can maintain forms (program windows, POS screens, etc.):
- Window titles, languages are defined,
- the so-called parent frames, i.e. the frames from which the window to be edited is opened in the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application, are assigned,
- Scroll Bars are activated/deactivated etc.
While you define the frame, the program window as such, the fields/field types are to be maintained via the program Form Fields.
Changes will be effective immediately if the edited window was closed at the time of editing. If it has been open, it has to be closed and opened again.
Apart from the following description, you can also find two examples in the chapters
Attention!
- This program should be executed in exceptional cases only.
- Changes should only refer to the fields described below.
Remarks on the Input Fields
This paragraph will provide a short overview over the options available for updating these basic data
Just like in almost any other program:
- The input mask may be different in your MICROS Retail OSCAR POS program depending on the set-up of the application. In some cases some data fields may be missing.
- Some input fields may contain default values or defined selection options; these cannot be updated.
- The input mask contains some fields that require an entry and others in which entries are optional.
- If the data record is updated via multi-page input masks, go to the dialog window by clicking on the appropriate buttons with <Mouse key 1>.
- The same procedure applies to call up another update program from this program.
- In some cases you may find that so-called "Switches" which - depending on the default - can be activated or deactivated with <Mouse key 1>. Activated switches are identified by their dark color, deactivated switches are lighter-colored.
Form No.
Permitted input range: numeric, 1 - 99999999
Every frame (= every program window/mask) is stored in the system with a unique frame number. Do not make any changes or entries in this field!
Name
Permitted input range: alphanumeric, max. 20 chars
Internal name of the frame; this name must not be changed!
Window Title
Permitted input range: alphanumeric, max. 40 chars.
The entry in this field is a column title, i.e. titles of selection fields are to be maintained via this field, e.g. Company No., Item, Descriptor in the program Item.
Parent Frame
Permitted input range: numeric, 1 - 99999999
If the window is opened from another window, the number of the latter is entered here.
Background Color
Currently without meaning
Background Pattern
Currently without meaning
Window Placement
Currently without meaning
Window x left
Currently without meaning
Window y top
Currently without meaning
Window Width
The Pixel value for the width of the form is entered in this field.
Window Height
The Pixel value for the height of the form is entered in this field.
Toolbarbits
Permitted input range: numeric, 1 - 9999999999
Pos 30 Color
Permitted input range: alphanumeric, max. 8 pos.
This field shows the name of the color for the new POS monitors for MICROS Retail OSCAR POS 3.0.
MDI Frame
This field shows the form type for MDI forms (multi-document).
·
MDI Mainframe
(Main form for MDI user interface, e.g. dispatcher)
·
MDI Subframe
(Sub-form, e.g. program window of MDI user interface)
·
No MDI Frame
(Oscar Standard dispatcher up to MICROS Retail OSCAR POS Version 2.0)
Update Mode
Via this window, you define how to deal with changes in cases of new releases (= after dofgl.fgl).
- Always (default)
The form will always be newly created with every new release. Possible individual settings will be ignored. - Never
The form will not be updated with a new release, i.e. individual settings adjusted in the meantime will remain effective. However, you can activate the form or fields manually, if required. - Keep disabled
This form will be newly created with a new release. However, fields that had been deactivated in the old form will still not be displayed in the new one, i.e. they remain inactive. The same applies to texts modified in the old form.
Terminal Type
The entry in this field denotes the type of terminal screen for this form.
- Old
Terminal screen up to Version 3.0 - POS 30
Terminal screen as from Version 3.0 - Pocket
Terminal screen for Pocket Terminal as from Version 3.0
Note:
This coding should not be deactivated.
A review
of the appropriate terminal screens can be found in the documentation Terminal screens.
Language
Permitted input range: numeric, 1 - 99
Number of the language in which the text to be edited is (to be) displayed. Currently, three languages are provided:
- 1. German
- 2. English
- 3. French
Has Scroll Bar
Activated: Vertical and
horizontal scroll bars will be displayed.
Deactivated: Scroll bars will not be displayed.
If this option is activated, the scroll bars will be displayed if the window has not been opened in its whole size. This might be the case if you have opened several windows and you would like to view them all simultaneously. In this case, you can view the required part of the window by use of the scroll bars.
As soon as you maximize the window, the scroll bars will vanish automatically (the option has Scroll Bar remains activated).
Overwrite
Do not make changes here.
No Cursor
Activated: No cursor
control.
Deactivated: Has cursor control.
If this option is activated, the cursor control via the mouse is impossible.
Modal Dialog
Activated: Masks with the
activated option have to be closed before another one can be edited.
Deactivated: Other masks can be edited simultaneously.
In the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application there are masks that have to be closed before you can edit another window.
Example:
After you started MICROS Retail OSCAR POS, the program dispatch appears first,
then the sign-on window is displayed. You can only work with the dispatch after
you signed on and closed the sign-on window. The option Modal Dialog is
activated for the sign-on window.
Note:
- This regulation applies only for windows within the MICROS Retail OSCAR POS application. Windows of other applications will not be affected.
Sales Frame
Activated: This window is a
sales frame.
Deactivated: The edited window is not a sales frame.
A
review of the appropriate terminal screens can be found in the documentation Terminal screens.
Static Frame
Activated: The sales program
window cannot be moved.
Deactivated: The sales screen can be moved (e.g. by use of the mouse).
The activated option prevents the sales screen from being moved with the mouse, particularly if it has been opened directly and not from the program dispatch.
Is Touch Screen
Button active: This sales
screen is a touch screen.
Button deactivated:. Sales screen without touch screen function.
A
review of the appropriate terminal screens can be found in the documentation Terminal screens.
Fit to screen
Button active: The screen
adjusts to the full format according to your screen resolution.
Button deactivated:. The screen has a defined size.
Note:
This option can only be used for sales screens.
View Screen
Activated: The edited window
is displayed.
Deactivated: The edited window is not displayed.
You can view changes immediately: If you activate the option, the edited window is displayed. By clicking on the toggle switch again, the window disappears. This generally requires that the displayed frame is moved until the switch is visible again.
With Navigator
Activated: The dispatch will
be displayed with a navigator window.
Deactivated: The dispatch will be displayed without the navigator
window.
From the version MICROS Retail OSCAR POS 1.6, the Navigator can be activated in the program dispatch by the activation of this option for the form Dispatch in the update program Form.
Previously, the OLE objects "MyTree", "AImageList", "MySysTree", "MyOrgTree", "MyGoodsTree", "MyCustTree", "MyDBTree" and "ATabStrip" had to be activated individually for the form Dispatch in the update program Form Fields.
Index
- Background Color
- Background Pattern
- Fit to screen
- Frame No.
- Has Scroll Bar
- Is Touchscreen
- Language
- MDI Frame
- Modal Dialog
- Name
- No Cursor
- Overwrite
- Parent Frame
- Pos 30 Color
- Sales Frame
- Static Screen
- Terminal type
- Update Mode
- View Screen
- Window Height
- Window Placement
- Window Title
- Window Width
- Window x left
- Window y top
- With Navigator
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