Memo editor title text

[whanigsberg]

Hi all,

Memo field on a form;
Press the pencil icon to open up the memo editor.

The title bar text is the name of the field. Is anyone aware of whether this text can be set? Dynamic would be nice but static text would be fine in my current situation.

I am sure this has been covered but my searchs have come up empty.

Thanks,
Bill

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: Memo editor title text

I think you would have to write your own code, which isn't hard, e.g.
p.text="William Hanigsberg"
a5_memo_editor(p,"Bill's Title")

and then you could use this instead of the memo editor. For example, if your memo is on a form, you could make the field read-only and then have a button that opens the memo editor with those 2 lines (except that p.text would contain the memo's contents).
The function a5_memo_editor returns "save" or "close" -- to update the memo field, you then have to place the value of p.text in your memo.

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Memo editor title text

Will the wonders never stop?

[whanigsberg]

RE: Memo editor title text

Wow, fantastic. Another new possibility opens up. Thank you Peter W. and Peter G.; you said it right.

Best to you both,
Bill

[Ronald Anusiewicz]

RE: Memo editor title text

I'm very intersted in subject but I don't quite understand all of this.

Would it be possible for someone to make a small working example, please.

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Memo editor title text

Open up the interactive editor. Copy in each line below & press enter after each line.

p.text="William Hanigsberg"
a5_memo_editor(p,"Bill's Title")

[Steve Lippis]

RE: Memo editor title text

With a separate button to open the editor the pencil button is no longer needed. Is the pencil button a property that can be turned off? I didn't see anything on the property sheet and I'm not sure if it is something that can be accessed through code.

Thank you,
Steve Lippis

[Ronald Anusiewicz]

RE: Memo editor title text

"OK", that works great.

Now, the little help box says that the function ( I assume that's what this command is ) returns 'lastbutton'.

I'm assuming that to mean either a character value of "Save" or "Close" and "lastbutton' is a character variable.

What do I have to do to see what last button is?

Or, what book do I have to use to find out how to do this. I can't find any reference to a5_memo_editor()in the books I've downloaded.

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Memo editor title text

"Last Button" is a system variable that in certain circumstances (such as this one) returns the name of the last button pressed. So using Peter's example and from the interactive editor...

p.text="William Hanigsberg"

?a5_memo_editor(p,"Bill's Title")
= "save"

when you press the save button.

?a5_memo_editor(p,"Bill's Title")
= "close"

when you press the close button.

?a5_memo_editor(p,"Bill's Title")
= ""

when you press the "x" on the form.

[whanigsberg]

RE: Memo editor title text

Auto complete works for a5_memo_editor() but it is not mentioned in the help files.

Ed, are you listening?

This is a very useful function.

Bill

[Ronald Anusiewicz]

RE: Memo editor title text

Thank you Peter, that's the little extra that I needed to write the code I want.

By chance, just this week I was working on this very same thing. I must have spent a good 8 hours trying to get my memo editor to work the way I wanted with absolutely no success. Frankly, I really didn't know what to do.

Then by chance this post showed up along with Dr. Wayne's response and your help. Now I have just what I neede all along.

This bulletin board and the willingness to share of the faithful participants are what makes Alpha 5 such a great product.

Over the years I have received so much help, thank you all!!

Ron