Re: How can one REDRAW a SUBFORM that uses a OBJECT as its 'variable or expression'?

2020-03-11 Thread Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech
On Mar 11, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Chris Belanger wrote: > Thank you, Lahav. Worked. > > Still don’t understand why REDRAW( ) doesn’t get a (*; OBJECT NAME) syntax > though … Create your own command called “REDRAW_OBJECT($object_o)” and pass in an object reference. That’s what I have done. Then

Re: How can one REDRAW a SUBFORM that uses a OBJECT as its 'variable or expression'?

2020-03-10 Thread Chris Belanger via 4D_Tech
Thank you, Lahav. Worked. Still don’t understand why REDRAW( ) doesn’t get a (*; OBJECT NAME) syntax though … (But your solution is simple enough) — Chris > On Mar 10, 2020, at 7:27 PM, lists via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > All you need to do is to assign the entity selection

RE: How can one REDRAW a SUBFORM that uses a OBJECT as its 'variable or expression'?

2020-03-10 Thread lists via 4D_Tech
All you need to do is to assign the entity selection object to itself to trigger an update, as in Form.my_Entity_List:= Form.my_Entity_List Lahav -Original Message- From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@lists.4d.com> On Behalf Of Chris Belanger via 4D_Tech Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:03

Re: How can one REDRAW a SUBFORM that uses a OBJECT as its 'variable or expression'?

2020-03-10 Thread Chris Belanger via 4D_Tech
Sorry for not including that detail. It is an entity-selection listBox. I had initially written more detail about my issue and decided perhaps it was too verbose (a bad tendency of mine). It has the same ‘REDRAW( )’ issue as the subform that contains it — no way to indicate the object. Since

Re: How can one REDRAW a SUBFORM that uses a OBJECT as its 'variable or expression'?

2020-03-10 Thread Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech
Hi Chris, What's going on in the subform that's not updating? On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:05 PM Chris Belanger via 4D_Tech < 4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > 4D continues to NOT QUITE truly and fully support its object notation, and > the inability to get a pointer to an object attribute continues