Very cool, other than the check box appear to e locked or read-only on the form. But at least the code does not crash now! AND THAT IS PROGRESS!
David. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Downall Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 3:58 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Back to the world of rBase! David, Welcome! It would take you less than a minute in R:BASE, too, if you already knew how to do it! You'll have to find your way to the "properties" for your controls and objects. A right-click is one way. Be sure your check box control has a sensible "Component ID" in the properties, e.g. "CheckBox1" Be sure your shape (or enhanced panel) also has a different component id, e.g. "Rectangle1" Find the "EEPS", tab, and edit the "on click" eep. Put these commands in: SET VAR vCheckBoxStatus TEXT GETPROPERTY CheckBox1 CHECKED 'vCheckBoxStatus' IF vCheckBoxStatus = 'TRUE' THEN PROPERTY Rectangle1 BORDERCOLOR 'RED' ELSE PROPERTY Rectangle1 BORDERCOLOR 'GRAY' ENDIF This works for an Enhanced Panel as your rectangle. If you use a "Shape" object, then instead of BORDERCOLOR use PEN_COLOR Mr. Buckley has a really cool R:BASE desktop application called R:DOCS that lets him look up and build every possible property or getproperty syntax. You'll have it, too, after you attend a "Super Advanced" R:BASE Training. In the meantime, you can get the equivalent at these URLs: http://www.rbase.com/property/property.php http://www.rbase.com/getproperty/getproperty.php Bill Downall On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:36 PM, David R Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Everyone! My name is David Haslam, and I just wanted to introduce myself. I am working with Paul Buckley here in Plymouth MI on various rBase projects. I must say, I'm very excited about the projects ahead. Back in 1987 / 1988 time frame, I was Application Engineering Manager for ACE Controls in the UK. I was creating some new databases to manage the engineering work, and I selected rBase as the tool of choice. I was extremely happy with it. Last time I used rBase was around 1992 here in the US (I moved to Michigan 20 years ago). Since then, Access, SQL Server, and VB have been 90% of my development career. But, I'm happy to be back. I also have a technical question, as I'm newly "born again" to rBase. I want to create a form with a check box and a rectangle on it. I want the rectangle to be one color if the check box is true, and switch to a second color if the check box is false. It must change color whenever the check box is clicked. Initially, for the testing, the check box does not need to be linked to a field in a table. In Access or VB it would take me less than a minute to do the whole thing. But, I've been racking my brains because I don't know the structures and syntax in rBase yet. Any help any one can give would be much appreciated! All the best, David. David R Haslam Vice President, Business Development HMSI, inc. 734.259.0387 (W) 734.775.4555 (C) www.HMSI-inc.com "OPTIMISM TODAY LEADS TO A BETTER TOMORROW." - Candace B. Pinaud
