How to make Popup move like a Window.

[sgonchigar2]

Hello,

can the popup be detached from the browser and moved around on the browser page and allow the contents to be visible behind the popup. Currently, out of the box popup is fixed like green screen.

Thank you,
Sunil

[Scott Klement]

Do you mean a window format on a 5250 screen? Genie gets the same instructions as any other 5250 emulator (such as Client Access or ACS.) It really can't make a window like you're describing because the system doesn't tell it what would be printed underneath. It only tells it what is visible, so if you made it draggable, you'd see a blank area where the window was.

On the other hand, a Rich DIsplay won't have that limitation. In a Rich DIsplay, Profound UI takes care of managing the screen and so it is able to keep track of multiple layers. In a Rich Display, you should be able to drag the window around out-of-the-box, there's nothing special needed. If it's not working for you, make sure that (1) you put all of your widgets on a panel or dialog that has the title bar to give you an area to grab for dragging and (2) that you set the "show as window" property to true. (Overlay won't allow you to drag it.)

[sgonchigar2]

Thank you Scott. Yes. We are evaluating profound and other products. Other's out of the box show popup as a detached window that can be moved around. Just wanted to make sure I am not missing anything in terms of configuration or something. I will try converting to Rich Display and see.