Send me the form along with a description of the driving table so I can create a table with an empty row. Zip it up and send it to: [email protected]
I have time to fix it tomorrow. Take a minute to do it. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patti > Jakusz > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 8:54 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > Hi Mike and Javier, > > I uncompressed the form. I couldn't figure out what the navigator was > so I just went to the R> prompt and typed: edit all from sys_forms3. I > went to the Sys_Data field and searched for my phantom field, for which > I earlier changed the component name to "phantom." I switched the > coordinates to 10, 10 and saved everything. > > Then I went to design the form again. Still couldn't see the field. > So I'm giving up. I will just finish my new form again. I can only > assume that some error was caused because Rbase crashes on me several > times/day. Thank you for all your help. > > > Patti > > > ________________________________ > > From: Javier Valencia <[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 11:11 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > Mike, > > I posted the information below in a previous post but It seems to have > gotten lost in the interwebs... :( Hopefully this one makes it... > ================== > Patti, > > There are several way you can solve your problem. > First, backup your form. > Second, back up your form. > Next, open the object list and find the item you want to delete, even > if you don’t see it on the screen, select the field on the object list > and press the DELETE key and your field will be gone. If the wrong > field is deleted, restore the form from the backup and start again. > The other way is more complicated and involves editing the SYS_FORMS3 > table. > On the R:Base Navigator select System Tables, and the double click on > SYS_FORMS3. A browser with all your form will open. Make sure you are > in the editing mode, select your form and the double click the Sys_data > column. Provided your form is not encrypted or compressed the R:Base > Editor will open with all the code for the form. If the BLOB editor > open, then your form is encrypted or compressed and you will need to > change to the normal mode. > You can find the object your are looking for by using the SEARCH > button. Once you find it, It will have a bunch of data and a part of it > will look like this: > > object VarLabel14: TVarLabel > Tag = 39474034 > Left = 179 > Top = 397 > Width = 68 > Height = 16 > > Of course the Object will reflect the type you are looking for. Change > the Left and Top coordinates to say 10 and 10 so it shows on the upper > left hand corner of the form. Exit the grid, save it, and now your > ghost object should show up on your form. > While looking at the code, you can probably find the repeated EEP. Very > powerful tool but not for the faint of heart. I have used it in the > past to find code that I could not find otherwise and for global > conversion of objects to their corresponding enhanced versions before a > right click upgrade was available. > > Again, make sure you back up your form before doing any work so you can > always restore it to its original condition > ================== > Javier, > > Javier Valencia, PE > O: 913-829-0888 > H: 913-397-9605 > C: 913-915-3137 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MikeB > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 9:52 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > If you were more experienced you could edit the form description > directly in the sys_forms3 table and remove the code segment for the > field description. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patti > > Jakusz > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 8:34 PM > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > > Yes, I will have to bite the bullet and start. I have to select them > > individually, so I don't pick up the phantom field. And then the > > field order gets screwed up when you copy them to a new form. And > all > > the radio buttons need fixing. All the variables. Just a couple of > > hours I didn't need to waste. > > > > Thank you for your suggestions though. > > > > > > Patti > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Dan Goldberg <[email protected]> > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:22 PM > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > > > > Try to select them and copy them in a new form. > > > > Dan Goldberg > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patti > > Jakusz > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 2:50 PM > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > > It took about 15 hours to create the report. I'm hoping there's > > another solution. > > Patti > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: jan johansen <[email protected]> > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 5:13 PM > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > > Patti, > > > > Sometimes weirdness happens and the only way to fix is start over. > > Just re-create the form. > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Patti Jakusz <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:06:45 +0000 (UTC) > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > > I could only find one of the fields that way. The other one has > > coordinates that are nearby. When I select it in object list, no > > field is highlighted by the dots on the form. I'm looking right > where > > the field should be. When I click in object list and hit delete on > > the phantom field, nothing happens. > > > > Patti > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: "Richardson, Jeff" <[email protected]> > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 4:57 PM > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: phantom field on a form > > > > Regarding the removal of the unwanted field, I can select any form > > object from the object list with my mouse (blue dots appear around it > > when I do so, just like as if I clicked directly on the object) and > > then when I hit the delete key on the keyboard… poof, it’s gone. > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patti > > Jakusz > > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 4:41 PM > > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - phantom field on a form > > > > Hello again, > > > > I was tracing a form and noticed an eep was initiated 3 times on the > > same field. I went into designer and only see one field (a > variable) > > that calls that eep. I looked at Object List and it appears twice. > I > > can click on the Object List and find one of them, but not the other. > > I looked in Tabbing order and it only appears once. > > > > So I tried to use the left & top coordinates to find the phantom > field. > > The good variable is located Left: 159 and top: 292. The bad one is > > Left: 161 and Top: 110. I found a field that is near that location > > and moved it, but there's nothing underneath. I tried to catch it by > > roping around that area and hitting delete, but it's still in my > > Object list. > > > > I unloaded and loaded the form again, but it's still there. Is there > > some other way I can delete that field? I still don't know why the > > eep is executing 3 times either. > > > > Thanks, > > Patti > > > > > > > > > > >
