Hi all
Sorry for using the wrong term by button name I should have said Caption and
I am sorry I a not explaining this very well.
I have 50 buttons like
ABC1 ABC2 ABC3
ABC4 ABC5 ABC6
..... down to 50
I have 4 buttons V1, V2, V3, V4 that allow the user to change the Caption
name of the
button to something like
Q1040 Q1030 Q1050
or whatever the user likes, When the user clicks on V1
I do a cursor that renames the Captions. This allows the user to rename the
Captions to
match his charge codes. and 50 buttons can have 200 unique Captions for
entering 200
different charges without having 200 buttons on the Form.
My table that stores the Original button Caption name and V1-V4 looks like
this in a Grid
Original Ver1 Ver2 Ver3 Ver4
ABC1 Q1040
ABC2 Q1030
ABC3 Q1050
....
ABC50
You do not have to have a row for each button, When the user pops up this
Grid to rename the
Captions for V1 it is a mess to have all the rows show up and the user has
to scroll to find the
correct Original name to modify V1 or they have to Add a row for that
Button.
To tell the truth, I have 50 buttons on an Enhanced tab that has 6 tabs so I
really have hundreds
of rows in this Grid making this a real mess.
So, I can't read the Caption name since it is being "renamed" I need to be
able to capture the
Component ID then pop up a simple form with just 1 row and V1-4 so they can
rename that 1 button.
I would be happy to send a screen shot of the form if it would help.
Please don't pull your hair out on this, I currently have a working solution
but it is not very elegant.
Thanks for all the feedback
Marc
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From: "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:45 PM
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Get component ID
What Jan is saying is you would create the Grid with the count of buttons,
etc and use that to create buttonX at runtime.
If your Grid is a map of ComponentID to partnumber or such, why can't you
just change the caption of the button. You can do that at runtime or does
the Caption have to say something else special?
Getproperty ComponentIDofButton CAPTION 'vCaption'
----- Original Message -----
From: "MDRD" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 3:21 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Get component ID
Jan
I never knew you could create Buttons on the fly, would that get messy if
the user is allowed
to create buttons at will?
Thanks
Marc
From: jan johansen
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:07 PM
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Get component ID
Marc,
You should be able to do what you want but slightly differenent way.
You have the ability to create "objects" on the fly. So on each row clik
of
your grid, create the button you want with the properties you want.
Jan
-----Original Message-----
From: "MDRD" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:53:01 -0500
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Get component ID
Hi Mike
I hope I can explain this....
I have a form with 50 buttons that we use to enter charges on a customers
account,
The component ID and Button names are the same at this point.
I have a Custom Form Action that gets the Button name, then matches that
button
name with a look up code in another table. If a charge codes matched the
button name
a charge is entered into the invoice.
We allow the user can rename the button names so they can match a lookup
code that they
have in the charge code table. I allow 4 different versions for the
button
names. If I have
a button named ABC1, with a Component ID of ABC1, the user can rename
the
button to
a current charge code in their DB, lets say version 1 would be SP123
which
is a spark plug.
Now, they can also rename that ABC1 button to Q1040 for version 2 which =
Quaker state 10/40
oil... and so on. When the user clicks that button the CFA looks up the
current name of the button
matches it to a charge code .... and we insert the charge..
Everything works great so far, now the problem
I have a grid where the user types in the Original button name in 1
column,
then the new
button names in Ver1, Ver2, Ver1 and Ver4. This grid layout to rename
the
buttons makes it
hard for the user to manage the button names. All the buttons pop up and
they have to
scroll down to find the original button name for the button they want to
modify.
So, I would love to be able to Right click on each button and let the
user
modify and add new
button names for the different versions but that is not possible.
So, my second thought was to have an Edit ckbox, if that box is checked
and
if I could
"read" the component ID of a button I could pull up a form with just that
1
row showing so they
could modify that button.
Really everything is very slick up to the point on how to Edit the button
names.
Thanks
Marc
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From: "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 1:05 PM
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Get component ID
> Would you care to rephrase the question? The button that is being
> clicked, in its' own eep, you would already know its' componentID at
> design-time, so you should be able to do whatever you want with it in
the
> EEP. Also, to get the property of the button that contains the
> componentID, you would need the ComponentID for use in the GetProperty
> command that would obtain it, so it's a non-starter (what you are
asking)
> as I understand it.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MDRD" <[email protected]>
> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 1:47 PM
> Subject: [RBASE-L] - Get component ID
>
>
>
> I need to get component ID of a Button when it is clicked.
> I thought I knew how to do this but I can't seem to figure it out
today?
>
> I looked at RBTI variables and Getproperty commands but still can't
> remember how to do this.
>
> Thanks
> Marc
>
>
