Promoted events..am I on the right track? (OpenInsight Specific) [Revelation On-Line Wiki]

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At 11 AUG 1998 10:56:48AM Steve C. wrote:

OpenInsight Specific

Using OI3.6.1

I currently have a form with numerous GOTFOCUS and LOSTFOCUS

event scripts. I want to create a SP with a CASE statement to

handle all of the GOTFOCUS events. Rather then call the SP

from each object's GOTFOCUS, I believe I understand that I can

leave all of the objects GOTFOCUS events "blank" and create a

"Promoted event" that will be processed at each object, having

only one call to my SP. This promoted event would have the name

"APPNAME*GOTFOCUS*FORMNAME", that's all, and would execute on

each object. AM I ON THE RIGHT TRACK ??? or is there something I'm

missing.. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

P.S. I got this from reading SENL 1-7, so I hope I read it correctly.

TIA

Steve C.

At 11 AUG 1998 02:01PM Dave Pociu wrote:

Steve,

I have implemented the kind of GotFocus event you are looking for about 2 years ago and it's been working great since. Mine changes the color of certain fields throughout the application (for a standard look) and stores a @ORIGINAL_VALUE for each field.

Here's how it works:

1. In SYSREPOSEVENTEXES I have an event called APPLICATION*GOTFOCUS* , where APPLICATION is the name of the application.

2. Since you cannot write code directly for this event, you have to compile a procedure with the exact name and parameters of a GOTFOCUS event.

3. Once you have the code, just copy the executable in SYSREPOSEVENTEXES under APPLICATION*GOTFOCUS* . It should start running right away.

One thing you might want to do is to always call a regular stored procedure from the global GOTFOCUS code. Like that, you can debug it and modify it easily by just changing a regular stored procedure. It's a little slower because of the procedure call, but it's worth it in the beginning.

Hope this is what you're looking for

Dave

At 12 AUG 1998 08:32AM Steve C. wrote:

Dave,

It appears to me that having "APPLICATION*GOTFOCUS*", this gotfocus

event runs for all objects and all forms in the application "APPLICATION". Is this correct???

I am right to believe that a promoted event named

"APPLICATION*GOTFOCUS*FORMNAME" will run for all objects in just

this one FORMNAME.

Thanks ….

Steve C.

At 12 AUG 1998 09:10AM Dave Pociu wrote:

Yes Steve, you are correct!

And obviously the code gets put in there the same way.

Dave

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