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Use the Form Designer to create your form in the normal fashion. We have provided a tool to help you get started with a fully function form and commuter module - SRP Form Copy:

This will create a copy of an existing form and commuter module so you can modify rather than create from scratch. SRP FrameWorks ships with a "blank slate" form, DBW_SAMPLE3, that can be useful until more fully functional forms have been developed.

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Keep in mind that most SRP FrameWorks forms will be MDI Child forms. Although MDI Child forms can have their own menu, this menu automatically becomes the menu for the MDI Frame (i.e. FRW_MAIN) when the MDI Child becomes active. If you choose to create a menu for any MDI Child forms then you will need to recreate all of the normal menu functionality that would normally be provided by FRW_MAIN. Because of the additional work that this provides, we strongly recommend creating MDI Child forms without any menus and take advantage of the menu in the MDI Frame (which is the way FRW_MAIN was designed to work.)

Step #2 - Add the Form to the MDI Frame (

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FW_MAIN)

There are three ways that a form can be launched from within SRP FrameWorks. First, you can use the Menu Designer from within the Form Designer to add menu items that will launch your form. You can use the menu QuickEvent dialog box to create an option that launches an MDI Child form or you can call a stored procedure (e.g. FRW_MAIN_EVENTS) to handle the launching of the MDI Child for you:

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