We have a form with 4 edittables, all of which have databound columns. The first column of each edittable is the same field. When a Delete or Insert is performed, I'm trying to make the same event happen on each of the other edittables. I've tried Send_Message with a Delete or Insert, I've tried Etmethod, I've tried setting Atrecord; nothing works. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Michael Matthews

send_message should work.

Can you copy/paste the actual command used.

I assume the other edittables are disabled, that might be the problem. I suggest setting a enable first then a disable after and see if that works.

Michael,

I assume you're talking about the INSERTROW and DELETEROW events - and that you want them to fire on the other EditTables?

If so you need to trigger them "manually", as they are normally only sent in response to a keyboard event. In other words if you want to trigger a DELETEROW event in TABLE_2 from TABLE_1 you need to do something like this:

0001     * // DELETEROW event for TABLE_1
0002     
0003     tbl2Row = send_Message( @window : ".TABLE_2", |
0004                             "TEXT_BY_POS",        |
0005                             0,                    |
0006                             rowNo )
0007     convert @fm to @vm in tbl2Row
0008                           
0009     call send_Message( @window : ".TABLE_2", "DELETE", rowNo )
0010     call send_Event( @window : ".TABLE_2", "DELETEROW", rowNo, tbl2Row )

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So I'd have to do both a Send_Message And a Send_Event? Fascinating..

I actually did a workaround.. did a Get_Property on each edittable's List, deleted (or inserted) at the current row and Set_Property to put it back. Not pretty, but it worked.

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Michael,

So I'd have to do both a Send_Message And a Send_Event? Fascinating.

Carl was giving you a solution that would both remove/insert the edittable row as needed *and* it would execute any event handler logic associated with these edittables. It's a comprehensive solution. However, my guess is that these are hidden edittables that don't have any event handler logic so you really don't need to do any Send_Event calls.

I actually did a workaround.. did a Get_Property on each edittable's List, deleted (or inserted) at the current row and Set_Property to put it back. Not pretty, but it worked.

I would encourage you to work on getting the Send_Message solution to work. It is a far more efficient and "best practice" way to do what you want. Using the LIST property for large arrays gets to be problematic. Send_Message works pretty well. I think you just need to debug your code a bit more.

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Thank you sir.. I stand corrected.

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