Well my only comment is that even sometimes is not even R:Base logical
Anyway maybe we all learned 

Gunnar Ekblad


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Skickat: den 8 april 2010 17:54
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Ämne: [RBASE-L] - Re: Making a table readonly

Karen - thanks! I would never have believed the syntax would change for 
differing items.
Albert

[email protected] wrote:
> Albert:  it looks weird, but Doug's syntax is right.  Back when
> we had this discussion initially and he proposed that to me, I made
> a comment back then that you must have the quotes around the
> entire thing 'READONLY TRUE'.  If you put the quotes around just
> the "true" thing (as you would other typical property commands), it
> does not work. 
>
> Doug:  I have this on my form "on after start" eep:
>    PROPERTY TABLE potrans 'READONLY TRUE'
>    PROPERTY combo ENABLED FALSE
> If you have combo boxes on your form, you should assign an id to
> all of them and disable them.  Otherwise the user can pull down values
> from the combo, the data appears to be changed on the form, but it does
> not save the value.  So it's confusing to the user.
>
>
> Karen
>
>
>> I think the problem is right here
>> PROPERTY TABLE CustPN 'READONLY TRUE'
>> That should be
>> PROPERTY TABLE CustPN READONLY 'TRUE'
>>
>> The read only is valid only for that session of the form. This belongs
>> in the ON AFTER START eep.
>>
>> Albert
>


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