How close all forms?

I open 1st form wih parameter:

ifrun32.exe form.fmx param=1

From this for using CALL_FORM I open another
Then using OPEN_FORM I open one more form
Then i want to go to 1st form and close all forms except 1st
How to do it?


If i'll make exit_form i will be in the 2nd

forms do NOT allow this. A time-honoured solution is : when you exit from the third form, put a 'TRUE' value in a global var, and in the When-New-Form-Instance of the secound form write :

IF global.var = 'TRUE' then
exit_form;
END IF;

This way, the secound form will go up, but imediatly the WNFI trigger fires and exits.

ALL the forms in your app must be the When-New_Form_Instance trigger, and the global var must be declared in the firs one.

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Chiappa

But this trigger doesn't eork if you return to form

depending in the version of the Forms and the environment, some triggers don´t fire when returning from a called forms, just try and check to yours (the technique works, I made this some times). For example, in my machine (client server env, NT 4.0 SP6, Forms 4.5) I just did :
PROG1 is the master, in Pre-Form I wrote :
:global.form_must_exit := 'NO';

in Prog1 there is a button calling prog2, in prog2 (my version don´t fires When-new-form-instance, too) I wrote a WHEN-NEW-ITEM-INSTANCE, at FORM LEVEL :

if :global.form_must_exit <> 'NO' then
message('Exiting ...'); pause;
exit_form(NO_VALIDATE);
end if;

and in prog3 I just setted the GLOBAL to YES, in a push-button. I just run it some minutes ago : all worked as expected.

OBSERVATION : this is NOT a step-by-step list, I´m just showing a general technique, u will need to do some research.

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Chiappa