Listview problem: Text invisible

[AWK]

Hi,

I'm kinda stuck with this one.
I'm using the Listview object to show me a list of results after a search-action. This works just fine. If I test it (F8) it all does what it needs to do and I can see everything just fine.
But then I try to build the application and installer. Still no problem. Installing works with no problems.
And when I run the installed application it still does everything it needs to do, even filling the list. But the font is invisible (or white?) against the white background of the Listview object.
I know the list gets filled by looking at the vertical scrollbar. And even clicking on the finished list does exactly what I want. I just can't see what I'm clicking!
I don't understand what I should do to fix this.
I tried setting the font to black and the background to white from the properties menu as well as from within the Event Editor. Nothing works!

Can somebody please give me a hint?

[LB]

Post the source MFA in the File Archive.

[AWK]

That's going to be a problem. The programm, as a whole, is almost 15 Mb large.

[nivram]

Can you upload the mfa somewhere on the internet and post the link here?

Marv

[DavidN]

It's probably easier to see if a basic application with a Listview in it has the same behaviour for you (of turning entirely white when run as a stand-alone EXE). If so, it may be that some Windows preference is causing it, though I'm not sure why that would be different inside and outside MMF... I think there is an option not to use theming somewhere in the application properties, but I can't remember what it's actually called offhand.

[AWK]

Okay, I've been working on it for quite some time now.
I tried to work around the problem by using a normal list object.
Guess what: the same thing happened here as well.
And it's not a color problem.
The list is, when created, saved and can be loaded again.
And that works!
I make a list by using F8 in MMF and load it into the installed version of the program. I can see the text! But as soon as I clear the list and make a new one, everything is gone.

I think the problem is in the Tree control object. I try to do the following:

GetFullPath$( "Tree Control", Val(Left$(List Line Text$( "List", Alterable Value B( "List" )), Len(List Line Text$( "List", Alterable Value B( "List" )))-4)))

I even tried using the above code to get the information in an Alterable String and then take the information out to the list, but the same thing happens...

Or could this be a bug? I hope not, because if this doesn't work, a specific and complex feature in my software won't work.

[maVado]

GetFullPath$( "Tree Control", Val(Left$(List Line Text$( "List", Alterable Value B( "List" )), Len(List Line Text$( "List", Alterable Value B( "List" )))-4)))


?????

How about giving your values some names?

make a clean frame with your objects and put in the events, then just upload that frame so we can help you on your problem.

[LB]

If it's blank text it is most likely loading "" as the text for each line, sometimes when you move an application it doesn't work correctly, you should make any file paths relative or use paths that can be retreived from, say, the registry. Can't you just upload the code and list object and tree object that are causing the problem? I never intended the whole app...

[AWK]

I've got it!

It was so stupid, so simple. I'm almost ashamed to tell, but I found the problem.

Recently, after getting some complaints from Vista users, I decided to move my data directory from Program files to My documents (all users). I had to change all of my apppath$ codes to AllUsersDocumentsDirectory$( "File" ). I have creating (and keep adding!) a huge program and I'm talking litteraly hundreds of times I had to alter this.
Appearantly I missed one in the frame I was working on. It tried to load a Tree control information file, but couldn't find it. Since I used that file outside of the visible area of the frame, I didn't see it didn't load anything. In MMF the backup file would be opened, which is in the directory where the MMF file is stored.

So, problem solved!

Leads me to a thought for a future version of MMF... Could it be possible to add a search-function for script-parts? That way I could open a frame, go to the Event Editor and click a search-button somewhere. Type: apppath$ and get all scriptparts visible and maybe highlighted. Just a thougt...

Anyway, thanks for thinking with me!