That might just as well be the button solution Karen mentioned earlier...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Eyring" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 2:04 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit : Karen, : : Would having a zero length variable edit field as the last field in the form : with your code in the On Field Enter EEP to trap the [ESC] work for you ? : : Just a thought. : : Bill Eyring : : _____ : : From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of : [email protected] : Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 1:43 PM : To: RBASE-L Mailing List : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit : : : On my initial testing while I was trying to figure this out, no it doesn't : work on closing the form. By then the value of the control is already : "wiped out" so to speak by virtue of [esc] out of that field saying "I : didn't want to save that value" : : Karen : : : : -----Original Message----- : From: jan johansen <[email protected]> : To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> : Sent: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:33 pm : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Saving a variable edit : : : 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" < <mailto:[email protected]> : : [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 < <mailto:[email protected]> : : [email protected]> : :: To: RBASE-L Mailing List < <mailto:[email protected]> : : [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 : : : : : : : : :
