What does this project method look like?
Case of
:(form event=<???>)
case of
:(Last object = <variable or field>)
do stuff
????
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 07:49:11 -0500, John DeSoi via 4D_Tech wrote:
> I recently embarked on an automated testing project and implemented
> the advantages you mention by automatically generating *one* project
> method per form that contains all of the object method and form
> method code. The only other task was to create wrappers for Form
> event and OBJECT Get pointer to allow them to be programmatically
> manipulated.
>
> So no rewriting of the form is necessary, no need to call a project
> method from every object method, and no need to maintain an enormous
> case statement for a form with lots of object methods. The "form
> controller" idea others have mentioned might be nice for newer
> projects, but would be a huge amount of work for legacy projects
> where object names did not exist. My generated code has lots of
> "Field1", "Field2", "Button1" names because object names never
> mattered when the forms were created.
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
>
>
>> On Apr 20, 2017, at 4:34 PM, David Adams via 4D_Tech
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Using a project method in place of a a form method/object scripts has a
>> couple of other advantages. If you pass in the event code, then you can:
>>
>> * Create custom event codes ('redraw', 'close' or something more like a
>> message)
>>
>> * Emulate form activity (useful for testing)
>>
>> * Leverage your existing code with CALL FORM. Your CALL FORM call invokes
>> the form handler method and passes in whatever event or data is required.
>
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