Dennis, I think Matthew needs to look at his sequence. Seeing a form caption of ".vcaption" usually would indicate that his variable is getting blown away somewhere.
I use form captions all the time, regardless of variable or not. Use --form ON BEFORE START eep CLEAR VARIABLE vCaption SET VARIABLE vCaption TEXT = 'This is the Caption' --for ON AFTER START eep PROPERTY RBASE_FORM CAPTION .vCaption Just my nickle's worth (inflation). Jan -----Original Message----- From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:31:20 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Changing caption on a Form Karen, We update the form caption all the time on variable forms. Seems to me the same method should work on table driven forms to be consistent. SET VAR vTmp = ('Generate Sample Budget Data for' & CTXT(.vBudgetYear)) PROPERTY RBASE_FORM CAPTION .vTmp Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected] From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf OfKaren Tellef Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:21 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Changing caption on a Form That's why I hardly ever use variable forms. You can define in the form eeps, but you can't do a dynamic caption Karen -----Original Message----- From: Dennis McGrath <[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 11:18 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Changing caption on a Form What about Variable forms? You cannot define form variables for a variable form. Dennis McGrath Software Developer QMI Security Solutions 1661 Glenlake Ave Itasca IL 60143 630-980-8461 [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] [mailto:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]?]] On Behalf OfKaren Tellef Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 11:04 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Changing caption on a Form You must have a form variable defined before it will be active. If you define your vCaption outside of the form, then you need to sorta "redefine" it inside the form by creating a form variable: vCaption = .vCaption Then the checkbox will be available, and you select vCaption Karen -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Brock <[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 10:55 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Changing caption on a Form The Dynamic Caption checkbox is grayed out and i can not set it. Thanks, Matthew D. Brock IT Specialist American Fireworks 1315 Hwy 71 W Bastrop, Tx 78602 From:Adriana Montano <[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:46 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Changing caption on a Form On the Form’s Object Properties (F11?) – Dynamic Caption tab you can set the Dynamic Form caption with your variable From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] [mailto:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]?]] On Behalf OfMatthew Brock Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:39 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Changing caption on a Form I am trying to do a simple operation like setting a caption on a form and it is not working. 1st i set a variable which later on will be set at runtime SET VARIABLE vCaption TEXT = 'This is the Caption' Then i try to set the form property in "On After Start" PROPERTY RBASE_FORM CAPTION .vCaption And when i run the form i get an output for the Caption as ".vCaption" instead of the "This is the Caption" It seems like there is a lot of work to do simple items in RBase that can easily be done in other programmming languages. Thanks, Matthew D. Brock
