----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Razzak Memon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:44 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: New Commands in RC79
> > At 07:15 PM 1/28/2005, Mike Byerley wrote: > > >New Property commands in Release Candidate... > > > >PROPERTY TABLE <tablename> 'OPEN' and > >PROPERTY TABLE <tablename> 'CLOSE' > > > >Where would these be Used > > > Mike, > > I knew that it would catch anyone's attention who > carefully reads the "What's New in Update 79". > > These commands are implemented for a reason; either > requested by the lovely user/developers or Razzak's > wonderful clients who pay his bills <g>. So, there > is always a method to our madness. > > After some testing and checking, these *new* commands > were implemented to close and open the dataset (the > driving table of the form) to dynamically assign a > new driving table to the same form without closing > and re-opening the actual form. You'll have to see > the actual application to appreciate this feature. > > With the push of a button, now you can change the > displayed data in a form based on a completely > different table without a flicker of the screen! Well the Icing on that cake would be to set the where clause in a var and open a form with: edit using &vWhere Then at the click of a button Property TABLE TableName 'CLOSE' Set var vWhere = 'Where somevalue = '''SomeOtherValue'''' Property TABLE TableName 'OPEN' Property TABLE TableName 'REFRESH' and the Recordset changes to the new where condition.... C'mon, can I have it? Please... Please.. Can I?? Are we there yet?? ;-) > Having said that, I'll prepare a cool demo for you > to demonstrate the feature and typical use of these > commands. > > Topic: > Designing "Universal" Data Browser/Editor in a Form. > > Please stay tuned ... > > Very Best R:egards, > > Razzak. > > P.S. Did you find any other cooool items in RC79? >
