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    Push() dilemma

    Is there a difference between a manual button push and a PUSH() in Xbasic?

    I an trying to create a dual purpose ENTRY/EDIT interface for an invoicing system. My problem has been with the entry design side of things. I have a main menu with a number of buttons on it. One button is called ENTER NEW INVOICE. When this is pressed it puts the value "entry" into a variable called ventryedit. It also opens the invoice table and enters a new invoice record then it closes the INVOICE table. It then calls up a form called ENTRYEDIT.
    This form has a browse and also a button which calls up another form called EEINVOICE. The ENTRYEDIT form is for viewing only and the EEINVOICE form called up by the button is for entry/editing purposes.
    So from the users perspective the interface requires too many keystrokes. First he has to press the ENTER NEW INVOICE button on the main menu. Then he sees a new screen (ENTRYEDIT) which contains a browse listing the new record that he has created, this browse is read-only so in order to work with this record he has to press another button to finally bring up EEINVOICE. The setup works very well and is quite reliable.
    So I thought it would be a snap to set it up so that the usercould sidestep the unnecessay button press in ENTRYEDIT to call the EEINVOICE form. The idea is to set up the ONINIT event of EEINVOICE to look for the word "entry" in the ventryedit variable and to have the code run PUSH() on the button to call up EEINVOICE. It didn't work I ended up with two instances of EEINVOICE only one of which closed when the user exits from the main menu. I have tried putting the push() code in the activate event with no success. Any suggestions?


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    RE: Push() dilemma

    Greg, I think you were on the right track.

    Instead of trying to push a button on the form, to call another form, just have your script call the other form directly. There's no need to push the button, just run the script that the button would run, and run it directly.

    -- tom

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      RE: Push() dilemma

      Thanks for pointing out the obvious again!

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        RE: Push() dilemma

        It's only obvious when you can see it. In my own programming work I sometimes find myself surrounded by so many trees that I can't see the forest either! One of the benefits of this message board is that it affords an opportunity for someone else to take a fresh look at a particular problem. It's much easier to see the forest when you haven't been building trees all morning. Hang in there. -- tom

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