Javier, You are right.
I guess I was being too general and thinking one-to-many here. Another option if all the forms are really modifying one row is to user an Enhanced tab control to allow you to do lots more with the same real estate. The answer really is: "It all depends" Dennis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Javier Valencia Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 3:05 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: saving data in form to table Dennis, I use the first method all the time with as many as 4 forms deep and it works great and it is pretty fast as well as the forms are already in memory. >>> On exit from second form, somehow make first form (still running) update to show changes made by second form. <<< This is easily accomplished using: PROPERTY TABLE your_first_form_table 'REFRESH' Javier, Javier Valencia, PE 913-915-3137 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dennis McGrath Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 2:50 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: saving data in form to table I think the key difference here is in the method. Which is easier? 1. Call first form. Call second form from within firstform. On exit from second form, somehow make first form (still running) update to show changes made by second form. 2. Call first form. Exit first form and call second form. Exit second form and call first form. Data will be displayed correctly. Perhaps this will shed some light. Dennis ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:54 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: saving data in form to table I'm not sure I can explain it any differently. Dennis's code is similar to mine -- same end, different means. My understanding is that (1) you have a program that brings up Form1, (2) on that form you have a button that brings up Form2, (3) after you exit Form2 you want data on Form1 to be updated. So we have to close down Form1 and reopen it. So here's my original post with a few more comments in underlines. Your main program (you need a flag to tell you whether to come back to the first form) If you never brought up the SecondForm, then vFromSecond will be null and you'll just continue on with your program LABEL formagain SET VAR vFromSecond TEXT = NULL EDIT USING FirstForm IF vFromSecond = 'yes' THEN GOTO formagain ENDIF -- continue with other program code here On Firstform, you have a button that calls up the second form, and you have code for that eep. That code will call the SecondForm, and after the SecondForm is exited, it will set vFromSecond = 'yes', close the FirstForm, and return you back to the code I show above, where the value of vFromSecond is tested. SAVEROW -- this will save data on FirstForm EDIT USING SecondForm -- the following code happens after you have exited the second form and want to go back to the first form SET VAR vFromSecond = 'yes' CLOSEWINDOW -- this closes the first form RETURN Ok, Sounds good. Now how do you exit the form when you use the popup instead of the form being in the background.
