If I understand you correctly, this is not a bug
and is the way RBase has always worked. If you exit the form from a field
(by either an [esc] or [F8] key, clicking on the 'x', whatever), the eep will fire,
but it cannot return you back into the field. You have told RBase that you're
exiting the form, and no eep can put you 'back" into the field if you've told
it you're leaving the form. I've always run into this problem since eeps were
first introduced -- you cannot validate data and return back to the form if
you press [esc] from that field. So what I do in the eep is to assign a value
to an "error" variable if there's a data problem, check for this variable in the
calling program and bring up the form again.
Karen
Hello All:
Can someone verify this bug -OR- is this a bug ??
Version 7.1.76 win
If you have a form used for ADD (or enter), and you wish to do the error
checking at the field level (which I prefer), it appears that you cannot
have an eep on the last field, and have it validate correctly. If this is
something that was reported earlier, and I missed, please let me know.
Very simple to replicate.
Create a form using comcomp (or any database), and only have two
fields....say company (field 1) and custstate (field2).
Then within the form, create a variable such as vstate text = custstate.
On the custstate field, use an on exit eep (to insure that the field is not
null), by inserting the following code:
IF VSTATE IS NULL THEN
PAUSE 2 USING 'STATE IS MISSING'
SKIP TO CUSTSTATE
RETURN
ENDIF
RETURN
Then, save the form.
Next, run the form and leave the custstate field blank.
The record gets added (with the blank state field), and THEN the field gets
checked for null, and you get the error message
What am I missing to make this work ?
Jim.
