What property can I place to the read event in the OI Form Designer that I can detect that the user is creating a new record during runtime?

OI will notify you of a new row in the SYSMSG event.

You can put something like this is the SYSMSG event of the window

$insert ps_Equates

$insert Msg_Equates



if msgCode eq SYSMSG_NEWROWINFO$ then

  msg(@window, 'New Row!')

end



RETURN 1

Or, you can cheat and put something like this in the read event of the window

* let the read happen

call Forward_Event()



* after the read, look for <new entry> in the title

work = get_Property(@window, 'TEXT')

work = work[-1,'B-']

if ( work _eqc ' <New Entry>' ) then

   call msg(@window, 'This is a new record')

end

HTH

- Bob

The sysmsg is a new one to me, I usually check @record=null$ at post-read.

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