Karen, Uncheck the "Hide Selected" option for the listview. That way, if the list does not have focus, you will see the selected row grayed.
Dennis McGrath ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 7:41 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Some examples of List View "makeclick" code 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
