Configure Screen Display Settings

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.

The Despatch Order screen has many tabs. You can specify how MineMarket manages tab loading for this 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. To limit tab loading for despatch orders:
    1. Check Load Only The Active Despatch Order Tab. If checked, when you open a Despatch Order, only the data for the default tab loads. (The Details tab is typically the default tab.) As you select other tabs, MineMarket loads the data required for those tabs. If unchecked, MineMarket loads data for all tabs. Default: Unchecked.
    2. Select whether to Unload Inactive Despatch Order Tabs. If checked, when you select another tab in the despatch order, the data for the previous tab is no longer kept in memory. If unchecked, data (once loaded) is kept in memory. Only applicable if Load Only The Active Despatch Order Tab is checked. Default: Unchecked; however, Datamine recommends enabling this setting.
  6. Click Close.