Remedial fetch-find help

[grayfox5]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Yes, the onchange event seems to be the correct one. I've modified things though by adding a button to search/enter a deal number, and attached code to it using a hybrid of your earlier If Exist snippet (which works great) and code generated by Action Scripting. At this point, when the user clicks the button, a dialog pops up and prompts for deal number. If it's found, it retrieves that record, end of story. If it's not found, I'll give the user the option to enter a new deal. So far, so good. Thanks.

Jack

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Try the onchange event instead.

[grayfox5]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Almost there. Turns out the correct event is not in the field rule's CanWriteField event, but in the field's CanDepart event on the form. When I type an existing deal and press Enter, I get the message box with the record number.

The only remaining problem appears to be the first time the form is loaded and I click the Enter New Record button. The event fires and tells me I'm on record 1, which of course I am. Maybe if I somehow load the form without displaying any records at all...

[grayfox5]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Doh! Sorry Stan, I found an error (you probably did too). I should always remember: computers won't run your code if it's wrong. I found 2 quotation marks instead of 1 in my ui_msg_box. Actually, A5 found it when I tried pasting the code into the field's OnDepart event on the form. The code now reads:

option strict
dim tbl as p
dim ix as p
dim nrec as n
tbl=table.current()
ix=tbl.index_primary_put("deals")
nrec=tbl.fetch_find(tbl.deal_no)
if nrec>0 then
ui_msg_box("Found Record",nrec)
else
ui_msg_box("Not Found",nrec)
end if

The code now fires, but the weird thing is that it never finds a record, whether I enter an existing deal number or not. I always get the Not Found message with a -1 value displayed in the message box.

I'm a bit closer now that the code is technically correct, I just need to dig a little more to figure out possibly whether it's attached to the incorrect event or some other problem on my end. Thanks.

Jack

[grayfox5]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Sample attached. Thanks.

Jack

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Can you attach a sample here? I had trouble just as you mentioned, but only when the index wasn't correctly set.

[grayfox5]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Stan,

Tried that (and by the way, I also changed the index name to "deals" so that there wouldn't be any potential conflict with the table name "deal"). Still no success. The "If EXIST" snippet you wrote in the previous post did work, however. If there was a way to populate the fields from the found record based on that, I could go that way. But I figured I had to find the record number and retrieve it in order to populate the form with the found record.

Jack

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

option strict
dim tbl as p
dim ix as p
dim nrec as n
tbl=table.current()
ix = tbl.index_primary_put("deals")
nrec=tbl.fetch_find(tbl.deal_no)
iif(nrec>0,ui_msg_box("Found","Found"),ui_msg_box("Not Found","Not Found"))

I think something is happening to the index you have set. Try the above.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

I thought so too at first, and that's the way I had it, but the index name is deals, so I changed it to that. In any event, I still get the same message either way.

The fetch_find() uses an index already in effect. You do not name the index in the fetch_find().

tbl.fetch_find(value to find in the index)

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Of course it might be simpler as

If EXIST( deal_no.value, "deals","deals")
   ui_msg_box("Found","Found")
else
   ui_msg_box("Not Found","Not Found")
end if

if deal_no is the objectname of the deal_no field on the form.

[grayfox5]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

I thought so too at first, and that's the way I had it, but the index name is deals, so I changed it to that. In any event, I still get the same message either way.

[Stan Mathews]

Re: Remedial fetch-find help

Wouldn't it be

nrec=tbl.fetch_find(tbl.deal_no)

[grayfox5]

Working on my second app, a bit more complex than my first one, and I'm having my first run-in with coding:

I have a table called deals with a field called deal_no, and index called deals. The idea is that if the user enters a new record and it's an existing deal, I don't want an error message for an existing record, I just want to find the record and populate the fields after the user presses the Enter key. If I'm thinking about this right, I'm trying to attach code to the deal_no field's CanWriteField event. Just to test it, I have:

option strict
dim tbl as p
dim nrec as n
tbl=table.current()
nrec=tbl.fetch_find(tbl.deal)
iif(nrec>0,ui_msg_box("Found","Found"),ui_msg_box("Not Found","Not Found"))

(The iif statement is just to see if the coding above is working before I try to figure out how to retrieve the record and populate the fields). I set the primary index to deal in the form's init event. When I open the form and enter a new record with a deal number (pre-existing or not), when I press Enter I receive an error message "Expected Value".

I've read the A5 documentation and Dr. Wayne's (excellent) book on Xbasic on this, but I know I must be missing something. Am I on the right track for doing what I want to do?

Jack