Saturday, January 11, 2003 From The Edge: Designing Dynamic Search Screen Form in R:BASE 7.0 Section: General Chapter: Running R:BASE Your Way! Platform: R:BASE 7.0 for Windows Build: 1.863xRT03 (Update 29 and Higher ...)
With over 65 Standard, Database, Variable, Additional, Internet, File System and Legacy Controls in R:BASE 7.0 Form Designer, you now have so many different ways to create productive forms to take advantage of available options. Here is one way to design "Dynamic Search Screen" for customer, sales master transaction record and then the details for selected master transaction record. Database: Concomp Master Table: Customer Slave Tables: TransMaster TransDetail Form Name: SearchForm Standard Controls: Static Text (Customer Search) Static Text (Customer:) Static Text (Transaction Master) Static Text (Transaction Details) Custom Wallpaper (Texture:StainedWood.BMP) Variable Controls: Variable Edit (Text: vCompany) Variable Lookup ListBox (Table: Customer, Variable: vCustID) Variable Lookup ListBox (Table: TransMaster, Variable: vTransID) Variable Lookup ListBox (Table: TransDetail, Variable: vTransID) Additional Controls: Speed Button (Image: ExitDoor.BMP, EEP: Predefined - Exit) Command File: SearchForm.RMD EEPs: ClearCust.EEP (Entry) SearchCust.EEP (Exit) For complete details along with examples and screen shots: From The Edge: http://www.razzak.com/fte (General Topics) (Powered by R:Tango) Enjoy and make sure to have fun! Very Best Regards, Razzak.
