That's what I do, Emmitt. The trouble is when I click on it the second time the
process gets updated again with the value from the second form.
I've stopped this by adding an IF.. THEN around it but, so far, I'm not
convinced it will do what I want every time, most times probably, but not 100%
convinced.
Here's the code:
-- Identify active field:
SET VAR vColID TEXT -- (defined for first use primarily)
IF RBTI_FORM_COMPID NOT IN ('DBLV_AllNames', 'IDV_SelName') THEN
SET VAR vColID = .RBTI_FORM_COMPID
ENDIF
The two "NOT IN" names are the only components on the second form so the vColID
doesn't get updated when RBTI_FORM_COMPID has either of those values but it
also won't get updated when the real name has changed and the condition is
still true.
Regards,
Alastair.
----- Original Message -----
From: Emmitt Dove
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:33 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: I'm not understanding a Form Property properly
Alastair,
Since you're using a speed button to accomplish all this, can you not in your
speed button on-click eep:
1) Get the current control's component ID
2) Save that component ID in a variable
3) Do the rest of the work
Now when you click on the speed button it should always capture and save the
component ID of the control that had focus when the button was clicked.
Emmitt Dove
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alastair Burr
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:42 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: I'm not understanding a Form Property properly
Hope you enjoyed your week away from it all, Karen - in this case not taking
focus away from the current field was entirely intentional but I need to know,
at least the program needs to know, which control to paste to therefore I need
to obtain that info and that works fine the first time. It's just the second
time that the RBase variable is out of sync if I can put it that way.
On the other hand, I'll look at approaching the process another way and
intentionally take focus away and go back again to see if I can get what I want
so, maybe, you've sparked an idea...
Regards,
Alastair.
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:46 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: I'm not understanding a Form Property properly
Alastair: I'm coming in this conversation late (had a rare one-week
vacation where I ignored anything business-related). I see you're using
enhanced speed buttons. I stopped using speed buttons years ago since I
learned that speed buttons do not cause a "loss of focus" (ie, it thinks you're
still in the previous field). There probably is a good reason for wanting
this behavior, but I don't personally know .... Have you tried changing to a
bit button to see if it works better?
Karen
Thanks, Razzak, for your sample application: Managing MDI Forms Using
PROPERTY Commands.
Using that I have been able to confirm that I have the right syntax for my
commands and the right text is transferred to the vAction variable which,
naturally, produces the expected result: the form and field object take focus
as required.
What I am still getting, however, is the identity of the last field object
held in the R:Base variable from the command:
SET VAR vColID = .RBTI_FORM_COMPID
after returning to the first form and having focus on the control specified.
I suspect that the reason for this is something to do with not "doing"
anything on the first form after returning to it hence the only error message
that I am getting: "component [name] not found in current form" which is
absolutely correct as it isn't there.
The sequence is:
Open (first) form;
click on DBEdit (placed in Scrolling Region);
click on Enhanced Speed button "BrowseNames" (outside Scrolling Region)
which launches second form;
select data on second form then click on one of four Enhanced Speed buttons
on second form;
[data from first form is correctly placed on first form automatically]
click on Enhanced Speed button "BrowseNames" which launches second form
again - NB: no mouse or keyboard action in the DBEdit which has focus;
select data on second form then click on one of four Enhanced Speed buttons
on second form;
[data NOT placed on form as the RBTI_FORM_COMPID variable contains the
identity of the last field on the second form]
As I indicated, I suspect that this is the expected behavior.
I have found a work-around so that the vColID is not changed on returning
to the first form but I'm not sure that this work-around will be effective in
all circumstances.
I would be grateful if my suspicions could be confirmed or otherwise.
Thanks ®ards,
Alastair.
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