Set Screen Display Limits

If you open many screens (forms) in MineMarket, you may exceed the number of Graphics Device Interface (GDI) objects that the system can display. To conserve memory, screens can be paged out.

Example: With Form Limit Before Paging set to 5, a user opens five screens in this order: A,B,C,D,E. If the user opens another screen F, screen A is unloaded from memory. If the user then selects screen A, the system reloads the screen into memory and screen B is unloaded because it is the next oldest one.

No data is lost if screens are paged out. However, on screens with multiple tabs, when you reload the screen, the default tab displays, rather than the active tab from when you were last using the screen.

Security Note: You need the Allow client settings security right in the Options user group security rights group for this activity.

Activity Steps

1. Open the Options screen.
2. Select the Preferences tab.
3. To display a warning if too many screens are open:
   1. Check Display Excessive Form Warning in the User Interface Settings field group.
   2. Enter the Form Limit Before Warning. The suggested value is 15.
4. To page excessive screens out of memory:
   1. Check Page Out Excessive Forms in the User Interface Settings field group.

      If checked, Display Excessive Form Warning should also be checked.

   2. Enter the Form Limit Before Paging. The suggested value is 20.

      If Page Out Excessive Forms is checked, Form Limit Before Warning should be less than Form Limit Before Paging.

5. Click Close.