G'day Steve,

At 16:15 19/03/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Okay, some of y'all been readin' my messages and maybe you're wondering what
>I was about - or maybe not.  Anyway, I've persisted (though I don't know
>what that means in reference to objects)

Cute!

>  in implementing a work-around to my
>TIERed REGION in a FORM problem, w/some of y'all offering pointers along the
>way - my thanks.  However, life, love, and lines of code are about
>trade-off's and I'm hoping that somebody out there can help me avoid a
>certain trade-off.
>
>I've set up a CUR to manage the sequencing and navigation and w/in the
>WHILE-loop I'm ENTERing USING a form FOR 1 ROW.  What troubles me is the
>clearing & re-drawing of the form while the error and skip checks are
>processing.  Although the reponse-time seems quick enough f/even
>accomplished 10-key data-entry users, that "flashing" makes me worried that
>it'll be too big a distraction f/my users.

Barring successful workarounds when they query the blink you
could always tell them,
"Windows takes longer to do a screen redraw than DOS does."
Which, by the way, contains an element of truth.

>Anybody got any good ideas about how to at least simulate what some previous
>versions of RB allowed you to do when you checked YES/NO to clearing the
>screen on form exit?

No idea here.   I'll watch this space and learn.

Warmest regards,


Tom Grimshaw
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