Open a form with a listbox. I am looking at an array based listbox, don't know if this is true for selection based but I suspect so.
Make an edit in a cell but DO NOT press tab, or enter or click anywhere else in the form. Now add something to the listbox via drag and drop (or perhaps some other programatic event). Because you did not trigger the focus to change the on data change event doesn't fire either and the contents of the cell revert to whatever they were before the entry. Tech Support has confirmed this as the expected behavior and suggested I might use On after keystroke. Not really an easy option given the calculations that run as the result of data change. Not to mention the opportunity for erroneous calcs based on incomplete data. And in the context of one keystroke to another there's no way to tell which one was the last one. That last point is important because the next event is going to take place in the context of itself. Meaning if I use some other event, On drag over looked promising, with POST KEY to hit the tab -- it still doesn't trigger a data change event on the cell that was edited. Other things like on deactivate do not fire for an object or subform. It appears the only solution is to set a 'shadow' object for the listbox and at each keystroke update it with the row, column and new data. C-objects will let me store any data type so at least there's that. Then On data change and On drop use that object for updating and saving if it's not empty. Seems like a lot of workaround to accommodate data entry with drag and drop. This only comes up rarely but it's a problem when it does. -- Kirk Brooks San Francisco, CA ======================= *The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.* *- Edmund Burke* ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
