I just posted this enhancement request....
Right now, if there are a lot of objects on a form, and only 1 of the objects needs to be redisplayed, the EEP allows you to use the RECALC VARIABLES command. However, this causes every object on the form to be "redisplayed" which gives the appearance of every object "blinking". This excessive blinking makes the form act slowly. It would be a wonderful if we had the option of adding a list of variable names after RECALC VARIABLES to restrict the update/redisplay to just those objects that need to be redisplayed.
For example, assume that I have 30 small Variable Image objects on a form that are used to display thumbnail images of typed documents. I also have 1 very large Variable Image object that can display the image as large as possible (full size) so I can read it. I want to move my mouse over a small thumbnail and have that image contained within that thumb nail be duplicated in the very large Variable Image object. If I do that now, all 30 small Variable image objects blink as they are all redisplayed with the RECALC VARIABLE command. It would be much better if I could restrict the update to only the large Variable Image object with the command, RECALC VARIABLES .vbigdocument.
Another example....perhaps I want to use the drag and drop feature of the Variable Image objects to slide one object on to another and then have them switch positions (allowing me to "sort" the images). If I use RECALC VARIABLES, all 30 thumbnails blink. It would be much better if I could use RECALC VARIABLES .vdoc1 .vdoc2 to cause just the 2 thumbnail images to be redisplayed.
All of the above could just as well apply to RECALC TABLES.
Thankyou for making a wonderful product!!
Mike Sinclair
Is there another way to accomplish the same thing that mere mortal Rbase users can do?
