setValue does not make List row dirty

[Steve Wood]

I would think the following would make the List Control row 1 dirty, but it does not:

{dialog.object}.setValue("list::LIST1::City::1","Athens");

Here is the help doc

Is there some other method to turn a list row to dirty so that synchronization will save programmatically applied row changes to the server?

[peteconway]

Does the list have a detail view?

[Steve Wood]

Hi Pete, haven't talked to you in a long while (or anyone else here).

It does have a Detail View and I also tried it without one. The function updates the List directly, not the detail view. I could programmatically scroll through each row, and update the Detail, save changes to List, next row, and finally sync to the server. But it's nearly instant to update the list directly.

[peteconway]

I think in row editing is you best option (even if you don't use it) those fields go dirty as they a really are mini detail view, for example if you have a switch on in row editing and have detail view on, the switch will update in the database in the onchange event without using the submit - and without any fields being mapped to a detail view.

[peteconway]

Steve meant to say hi as well, I was focused on the question. Been following the IADN stuff - keep up the good work.
Pete

[Steve Wood]

Toggling on in-place editing was not a solution. If it were to work I would have to go through some routine of making the row editable, update the row, and whatever comes after that, repeat for each row.

I will fall back to sending the data out of the List to an xbasic callback, update the table, and maybe refresh the List from the table.

[peteconway]

Well then dump the List and use a Viewbox. Much better.