Steve -
Thanks for the commiseration. Because of what you said below
I retested the eep, that appeared to be sort of working, and it failed.
The process self-destructed after about three trips up and down the tier.
What is really strange is that it worked okay in a much more rigorous test
on Saturday.
Managed to get the desired effect with computed columns altho the
user has to go to the next row before the display changes. They can live
with that.
Bernie
At 10:18 AM 11/22/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Bernie, I can't offer you any insight into a solution, but maybe some
>commiseration. I encountered a host of little nasties when I attempted to
>utilize eep's within a tiered region - it was especially ugly when NEXTROW
>attempted to navigate to any row beyond the last one displayed in the last
>tier at the bottom of the region. I'm pretty sure that I even replicated
>the behavior using a separate "test" database with different data just to
>give me some assurance that I wasn't losin' my mind. I think that this
>experience is what prompted me to join this list.
>
>Anyway, whether it was a bug - I think it is, but I'm not grindin' an axe
>here - or my logic, I gave up on this approach. I accomplished what I
>needed by using multiple forms, command-files, eep's, a cursor, etc. Well,
>today, although I never would have been so PUSHED to go this route, now that
>it's done, I think my solution is actually better in many ways (user i/f,
>performance, control, application architecture that lends itself to future
>migration, etc) than what I would have done had I not encountered this
>anomalous behavior.
>
>I still don't like the anomalous behavior, however.
>
>I'm sorry I don't have any material insights into correcting the problem. I
>just wanted to let you know that I think I bumped into the same problem
>you're seeing - and, hey, I hadn't even gotten to the point of locating
>tier-level buttons in the region - but that I was ultimately able to move
>beyond that "box"!
>
>My $0.02,
>Steve in Memphis
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bernie Corrigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:44 AM
>Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Buttons don't work when focus is in afield with
>anexit eep
>
>
>> Hi Sami -
>>
>> Thanks for responding. The form is in 6.5++ 1.866. The
>> field in question is located in a tier. When TRACE is used the
>> field eep works and TRACE doesn't reach the button eep. The
>> field eep contained NEXTROW; PREVROW so that the values changed
>> in the row by the field eep can be seen as RECALC has no effect.
>>
>> When NEXTROW; PREVROW were removed from the field eep the
>> button eeps functioned as they should. Unfortunately the value entered
>> in the field disappeared when the field was exited and the changes
>> caused by the field eep to other values in the row are not displayed.
>> If the field is reentered then those values are displayed.
>>
>> When the eep without NEXTROW; PREVROW was executed On
>> Row Exit instead on field exit, the field value no longer
>> disappeared but the other changes to the row were not displayed.
>> Leaving the row and coming back displays those changes. Putting
>> NEXTROW; PREVROW into this eep caused the cursor to run to the
>> end of the table one row at a time.
>>
>> Attempts to use the eep and a modified version of it after
>> the row was saved resulted in crashes to the desktop. I have
>> decided to instruct the users that if they want to use the
>> form buttons they will have to be in one of the columns without
>> an exit eep.
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>>
>> At 03:53 PM 11/20/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>> >Bernie -
>> >
>> >Are you in 6.5++ for Windows? If so, it should be executing the field
>exit
>> >EEP first then the EEP that's on the button. What do you see when you
>trace
>> >it through?
>> >
>> >If you're using version 7.x then only the Office Button and Push Buttons
>get
>> >focus so the cursor may stay in the original field if you're using a
>> >different kind of button and so it will not execute the Exit EEP.
>> >
>> >Sami
>> >
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>> >Software Management Specialists
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>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Bernie Corrigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 11:16 PM
>> >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Buttons don't work when focus is in a field with an
>> >exit eep
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi All -
>> >>
>> >> I have found that buttons which trigger EEP's do
>> >> not function when focus (where the cursor is located) is in
>> >> a field which has an exit EEP. Anybody else have this
>> >> problem?
>> >>
>> >> Bernie
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
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