Hello Michael, If you can do without the checkbox then you can set a variable with the desired message(s) and update it with RECALC VARIABLES. Take a look at what Dr. R did in the demo found in NewStuff.zip Good Luck, Manuel Michael Sinclair wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a form with a bunch of push buttons on it. Each push button > runs a small file that > adds, modifies, or deletes rows from a different table. I want to be > able to display some > kind of indication on the form (that would change) depending on what the > user did after pushing > the push button. For example, if the user deleted all of the rows in > the table, then a check box > could be unchecked. If the user left any rows at all in the table, then > a check box could be > checked. Now here is the problem.....the check box won't change until > after I have exited and > reenterd the form. But I can't do that from within the code activated > by the push button---some > evil error message says that is illegal from within an EEP (are files > run by push buttons considered > EEPs?). But I also can't use SCREEN RESTORE OFF, cuz that only works > within EEPs. ARGH! > > The only way I found to make it work is to have the push button command > file end with > EDIT USING formname.....but it get's ugly when you try to leave (all the > previous uses of the > form are still open, albeit hidden) and they each have to get > closed....and eats memory). > > So.......how do smart Rbase users do this? AND does this have anything > to do with SET FOCUS, > or MDI (can anybody give me an example of how and when to use SET FOCUS > and MDI??) > > TIA! > > Mike Sinclair
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