Form not locked down

[Bob Arbuthnot]

I have a form that is modal entry that I need to control the user's new entries, changes, and saves thru buttons on the form. I have just noticed that when I right click when hovering over a hidden conditional object that right click is active for enter, change, and cancel actions. I also notice that pressing the F3 key on the keyboard puts the form in 'change' mode.

I have right click turned off in the form properties and also on all fields on the form. What else can I do to finish locking this form down the way I need it to be?

As always, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bob Arbuthnot
Belleville, KS.

[johnkoh]

Re: Form not locked down

see,

<OBJECT>.ALLOW_CHANGE()

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

John, thanks for responding.

I tried putting cond1.ALLOW_CHANGE(.f.) in the on-activate event for the form, alas right clicking when hovering over the hidden object (cond1) still allows enter, change, and cancel actions off the right click menu. The F3 key still puts the form in change mode. I'm going to let this thread sit out here for another 24 hours or so and see if anyone has any other thoughts. If no one does I'll submit a bug report.

Bob Arbuthnot

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

OK, I entered the following code in the form's OnKey event to disable the F3 key:

If a_user.key.value="{F3}"
a_user.key.handled=.T.
if a_user.key.event="down" then
end if
end if

Also, used the same code to disable the F8 key (opens the underlying table in browse view).

Am still at a loss as to what to do about the right click over a hidden conditional object that opens up the right click menu for change, enter, and cancel on a modal form with right click disabled for 1)the form, and for 2)all fields on the form.

[johnkoh]

Re: Form not locked down

Bob,

Preventing any changes to a form
Perhaps you want to prevent the user from making any changes on your form. That is simple in Xbasic. The
new properties we will use are:
<form_pointer>.restrict_enter
<form_pointer>.restrict_change
which are akin to changing the properties of the form in design mode, and the property
browse_name.browse.readonly
which changes the editing properties of a browse.

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Form not locked down

Bob, its beginning to sound like you might have to redesign form to work around the CO behavior. You also should consider submitting a formal bug report... or would you consider this a new feature wishlist item?

Truly locking down a form takes a lot of work. You might be ahead of the game to use an xdialog instead of the form.

Another idea: what happens if you put a cancel() in the CanArrive event for the CO?

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

Hi, Tom. Long time no taco! Thanks for responding.

Hadn't thought about creating the form as an xdialog, might explore that.

To my way of thinking this is a bug. Why would you ever want an action to only be active when right clicking over a hidden object???

Is CanArrive even available for a CO (especially a hidden one!)???

ba

[martinwcole]

Re: Form not locked down

the best way to handle forms is to set the data entry to modeless, and in the onfetch event say parentform.allow_change(.f.)
then put a button on the form - Edit, and say parentform.allow_change(.t.)

this is much better than parentform-modal.

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: Form not locked down

Bob, the docs suggested canArrive is available, but when I try to implement the idea, no can do. Sorry.

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

Martin, thanks for the post and the advice.

I tried putting parentform.allow_change(.f.) in the form's onfetch event. Still, when you right click on the space occupied by a hidden conditional object the right click menu appears with the options to change, enter, or cancel available. As I stated above, right click menu is turned off for the form and for all fields on the form.

I think this is a bug. I will try to get a bug report submitted this weekend with a sample form, etc.

ba

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

Thanks anyway, Tom. I still appreciated the input.

ba

[martinwcole]

Re: Form not locked down

Bob, I doubt that the right click is happening on the conditional, rather the form itself

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

Martin, see for yourself in attached db. Bottom half of form is a hidden conditional object, top half is not. Right click on bottom half and you get right click menu to cancel, enter, change, or save. Right click on top half and nothing happens.

ba

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

Bug report submitted. I will post here what I hear back.

ba

[Bob Arbuthnot]

Re: Form not locked down

Work around received back from Selwyn (you gotta admire these guys committment to their product!).

ba

thanks.

i look like it is a limitation, not a bug - you can't set the right click menu for a conditional control.

there is a work around that might meet your needs. see video.

http://screencast.com/t/PU20YquRnHxH