I don't know why this is not working. I have a form opened on top of another form. a change is made to so data and the top form is closed (and the record saved). In the lower-original form, there is a symbolic field (EDITLINE control) that I want to recalculate.

On the write event of the 2nd form, I do a

status=SEND_EVENT(form1.control, "CALCULATE")

I've checked form1.contol, and the correct CtrlEntId is being referenced.

But, the control is not updating. Of course if I reread the record, it recalculates and shows the new data, but i want the revised data to show when the 2nd form closes….what am I missing???

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ARCS, Inc. [img]http://www.arcscustomsoftware.com/arcslogo.gif[/img] </QUOTE> ---- === At 03 APR 2000 06:28PM Donald Bakke wrote: === <QUOTE>Paxton, It sounds like you aren't updating any control on Form1. The CALCULATE will only work with data available from existing controls. It won't re-read the data from the disk. You should create invisible controls on Form1 and have this updated upon the close/write event of Form2. Keep in mind, however, that you must update the DEFPROP or INVALUE properties for CALCULATE to work. [email protected] [url=http://www.srpcs.com]SRP Computer Solutions

Well at least I'm starting to understand calculate…old AREV knowledge dies hard! I want the dictionary symbolic to recalculate!

So I can do that and stuff the control….

I see notes about updating DEFPROP and/or INVALUE but I really don't understand. It reads to me like update TEXT in the case of this control. But update with what? Of course after I manually recalculate I'll set TEXT…what's going on here?

-Paxton

Paxton,

In AREV you had a value that was stored in WC_IS% and you had a value that was stored in @RECORD. It is possible that the two don't match, especially during the Post-Prompt process of a field. There is sort of the same relationship in OpenInsight controls.

The TEXT property of a control, strictly speaking, only tells you what is visibly displayed in the control itself. It does not necessarily tell you what is technically in @RECORD…although 99% of the time they match. When you manually enter text in an editline, for instance, and then tab out of the control then OI will update @RECORD with the information you entered. However, if you programmatically set the TEXT property of that same editline then @RECORD won't be updated until you write the row. If you want @RECORD to be updated immediately then use DEFPROP instead of TEXT. It works exactly the same way (in terms of your coding) but @RECORD will be updated, the SAVEWARN flag will be set, and Sent_Event(Ctrl, "CALCULATE") commands will work as well.

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