Gene Wirchenko wrote on 2013-06-18:
> Dear Vixens and Reynards:
> Once more, I am doing battle with the form event model. I did
> not want a fight, but it appears that I have one.
> I have validation on fields. What I want to do is be able to
> turn this off until the form is ready for user input. How can I do this?
> One possibility that I have thought of is using Form::KeyPress
> to detect the first keypress. I do not think that this will work,
> because I have to have a keyboard command in one gotfocus to handle a
> VFP bug. (I actually have to move off the field then back on,
> because otherwise, the cursor does not get set to the part of the
> field that I want (the day part of a date).
> I have a flag property that I use for determining whether to do
> validation, and it works fine during normal use. During
> initialisation, with all of the events firing, it does not work. I
> think it would *IF* I could determine where I could reset the flag.
> Any ideas what I can do here?
> Sincerely,
>
> Gene Wirchenko
>
Gene,
Add a form property named "HasActivated" set the initial value to .F.
In the ACTIVATE event, set it to .T.
In your troublesome places, check the value.
IF THISFORM.HasActivated
*-- Your code goes here
ENDIF
Tracy Pearson
PowerChurch Software
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