Buddy: I had sent this email yesterday and don't think I saw it come
through either... I'll do a resend and see if it shows up!
I had my first opportunity to use "makeclick" to show a list view item as
already selected, and I took a bunch of wrong turns along the way. It works
great now, but in case anyone wants to save these notes for the future... I
know I saved this once I had it working!
The form
I have a complicated search form with a bunch of user criteria fields, and
a variable lookup list view that is populated when they click "search". When
the search form first comes up, the list view is blank and focus is on the
first user criteria field. If they double-click on an item in the list view,
I close the search form and bring up that item's form. On that item's form,
they can either exit altogether or "return to search". What they asked for
was that if they "return to search", that the row they clicked be
highlighted. Sounds simple enough...
EEP on double-click of the list view
I trap the item clicked as follows:
SET VAR vItemPicked INTEGER = NULL, vText TEXT = NULL
GETPROPERTY listview ITEMINDEX vText
SET VAR vItemPicked = (INT(.vText))
-- Now the eep goes on to closing the search form and returning to program
code that will bring up the individual edit form
EEP on "form on after start" of the search form
This was the tricky part to get to work. There were 2 problems that I
needed to solve.
(1) The first try of code worked to highlight the row but then the
highlight immediately disappeared. I finally realized it was because the focus
was
on that user field, not on the list view anymore. I do wish we could have
"sticky" list view highlights.
(2) Even with the focus figured out, for some reason I could not use a
variable in my "property" command, so I had to build the command.
So this works nicely:
SET VAR vItemPicked INT
IF vItemPicked IS NOT NULL THEN
PROPERTY listview SET_FOCUS 'TRUE'
SET VAR vCommand = ('PROPERTY listview MAKECLICK' &CTXT(.vItemPicked) )
&vCommand
ENDIF
Karen
