Thanks, Albert, it's strange that I haven't noticed it before but I've
always tried to link on IdNums of some sort so perhaps I've just been
fortunate.

Happily, though, the form is based on views so, with luck, I can add a
computed column that does a trick or two, link on those and rename the other
links.

Regards,
Alastair.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:26 PM
Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Dynamic size Scrolling Regions: a little local
difficulty


> Alastair, I have some databases that use double quotes because of this
problem with single quotes
> in name fields such as "O'Brien". You have to somehow double up the quote
in the linking field so
> it takes the quote as a literal character rather than a quote, which
terminates the text field
> prematurely.
>
> Yes, the SQL standard is single quotes, but No, it's not the best thing
going in some cases. The
> hoops jumped through to get fields with apostrophes in them to work can be
eliminated very simply
> by using double quotes.
>
> SET FLAME_PROOF_UNDERWEAR ON
>
>
> --- Alastair Burr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a form based on 4 tables. The driving table simply returns a
looked-up name with the
> > other 3 tables each returning a scrolling region based on the preceding
table.
> >
> > I have been attempting to dynamically size the scrolling regions to
return the number of rows
> > found for each table.
> >
> > I have the maths working fine and each one works individually but I have
two things which I
> > haven't found a solution for yet:
> >
> > Firstly, I seem to have to click into each region to get it to adjust
its size; and
> > secondly: there is a lot of flashing of the screen as each one is
changed.
> >
> > I've tried every combination of Set_Focus and Skip To and table
properties for First, Refresh,
> > Recalc, etc that I can think of but not found the missing ingredient.
> >
> > One other thing that is related to scrolling regions but not
particularly to this form - as far
> > as I know - is that I am getting some "Invalid Text Value" error
messages - apparently -
> > whenever the linking (text) columns contain a single quote (as an
apostrophe). Is this something
> > that needs to be reported as a bug (upgrade #80/RC2)?
> >
> > Thanks & regards,
> > Alastair.
> >
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> > St. Albans, UK.
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