Karen, As Mike has suggested, the ON EXIT of the individual never fires because you are still in it. This is similar behavior to a scrolling region where if you use an ON EXIT eep on a field, it only fires when you move between fields in a row and doesn't fire when you use the F7 or F8 to move between rows but never the field.
I think my last post would work in the form ON CLOSE eep but I haven't tested it. Jan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:04:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit Jan: So what you're saying is that your solution wouldn't work if they pressed [esc] out of the field, right? I just demonstrated the form to the user and showed that she had to press [enter] once before she pressed [esc] and she was cool with that... Karen -----Original Message----- From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 12:01 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit Per my first ans to Karen, when you press '[esc]' while in the edit control, the onExit eep never fires because you never left the control.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jan johansen" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:51 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit : Karen, : : : What I have done in the past is use to assign a componentid to that variable : edit. : : Assuming a variable edit called vbeforeedit. : : Then in the on-exit eep do a : : GETPROPERTY yourcompid TEXTVALUE vafteredit : : IF vafteredit <> .vbeforeedit THEN : : SET VAR vbeforeedit = .vafteredit : : ENDIF : : : PROPERTY TABLE IntCmd 'POST' : : : Jan : : -----Original Message----- : From: [email protected] : To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) : Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:18:01 -0500 (EST) : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit : : : Mike: You're absolutely right. In most cases I WOULD disable the [esc] and : make them press a button. This is one of those heads-up kind of DOS forms : that I'm converting. Trying real hard to mimic the way DOS does this (hey, : didn't I recently start a conversation on this??). I'll show her what I : did as a workaround and tell her that I can locate a button right after the : field that she can press a [spacebar] to select, and see which she prefers. : : : : It still seems weird to me that the software thinks I've never "left" the : edit box. I did enter the edit box, I pressed a key to get out of the edit : box... : : : : Karen : : : : : : : -----Original Message----- : From: Mike Byerley <[email protected]> : To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> : Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 10:10 am : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit : : : The onExit eep never fires because you never left the edit box. : : Can't you suppress the '[esc]' key for the form and make them press a button : : to exit. It should work ok then. : : : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: <[email protected]> : To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> : Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:29 AM : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Saving a variable edit : : : : What I'm doing: I have a form based on a dummy table, nothing but : variables. If the user presses [esc] while in the last variable edit it : does not save the value. : : I had a solution to this problem saved in my note document, but it doesn't : work now that I need to use it. The exact posting from this list said: : : I put PROPERTY RBASE_FORM DONTSHOWSAVEDIALOG 'TRUE' in a test form : and put the following in the onExit EEP and it saves the data. : IF (LASTKEY(0)) = '[esc]' THEN : PROPERTY TABLE IntCmd 'POST' : ENDIF : RETURN : : I replaced the tablename with my own table but it doesn't work. It seems : that pressing [esc] from the last field doesn't even evaluate the field's : "on exit" eep (I put a pause message in there it never shows). Has anyone : else done this successfully? : : Karen
