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How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

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    How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

    I am calling a form that has a tabbed layout. On each tab I have an embeded Active X control that displays various graph data from an A5 table. Unfortunately when I move from tab to tab I need to right click on the graph and tell it to "Refresh Data".

    In reading the specs on the ActiveX Control, it talks about being embedded on a web page and the data will refresh automatically when the page opens. How can I get the form to automatically refresh? Is there XBasic code that does this?

    Also (A different issue), when we refresh, we get a security notice saying that:

    This website is using your identity to access a data source. If you trust this wabsite, click OK to continue, otherwise click Cancel.

    This is interesting because we are not on the web.

    Jim

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    RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

    Jim,

    The only suggestion I have is to use Object Refresh from Action Scripting.

    Regards

    Keith Hubert

    Guild Member
    London.
    Regards
    Keith Hubert
    Alpha Guild Member
    London.
    KHDB Management Systems
    Skype = keith.hubert


    For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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      #3
      RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

      I tried that, unfortunately Alpha doesn't recognize the embedded Active X as objects, it doesn't even show up

      Jim

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        #4
        RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

        Jim,

        Have you looked at OnTabChange? Also there is the ActiveX app in the Samples folder. I'm thinking here that the OnTabChange could make a script run to change the ActiveX object.

        Just one question, this is just from making an usumtion. If the ActiveX is runing off data and you are using a different ActiveX on each Tab what needs to be refreshed if the data remains the same.

        Regards

        Keith Hubert

        Guild Member
        London.
        Regards
        Keith Hubert
        Alpha Guild Member
        London.
        KHDB Management Systems
        Skype = keith.hubert


        For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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          RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

          Haven�t looked at the onTabChange, but the problem I am having is that Alpha isn�t recognizing the ActiveX as even being there. In otherwords when I select the list of objects to refresh, none of the ActiveX charts appear.

          As far as assumption, there are 8 tabs, each tab has an identical chart with the only difference being the data that is graphed. We run an operation that creates the data for the graphs prior to displaying the chart, BUT the operation needs to only run once vs 8 times

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            #6
            RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

            Does the ActiveX control have a refresh method? If so, you should be able to call it yourself.

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              RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

              Jim,

              Can you post a cut down of your app with the ActiveX control on a form?

              I understand that the ActiveX is not in the list of Objects to refresh but is graph not working at all?

              Regards

              Keith Hubert

              Guild Member
              London.
              Regards
              Keith Hubert
              Alpha Guild Member
              London.
              KHDB Management Systems
              Skype = keith.hubert


              For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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                RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

                Keith,

                Thanks in advance for the help. Attached is a very tuned down version of the application. Unzip it and place on the root dir in a folder called c:\a5.

                The control we are using is Microsoft Office Chart 10.0 (owc10.chartspace.10)

                We have (2) problems that we are encountering:

                1)When we open the chart we receive a security notice for every chart that is on the page, saying;

                �This website is using your identity to access the data source. If you trust this website, click OK to continue, otherwise click cancel.�

                We don�t know how to turn this OFF!!!

                2)When we change any of the data the table, the ActiveX control does not automatically refresh; Example, if you are on tab 1 and change a TS1 data point to 180, nothing happens until you right click on the active x and select �Refresh Data�

                Optimally, we would like to get this to work automatically, but if not, is there a script we could right that would resolve these issues?

                Thanks again

                Jim

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                  RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

                  Jim,

                  I have been unable to open your form.

                  Please see the attached sample from Alpha and you will see there is more to setting up an ActiveX graph than meets the eye.

                  Regards

                  Keith Hubert

                  Guild Member
                  London.
                  Regards
                  Keith Hubert
                  Alpha Guild Member
                  London.
                  KHDB Management Systems
                  Skype = keith.hubert


                  For your day-to-day Needs, you Need an Alpha Database!

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                    RE: How to Automatically Refresh a Form?

                    Can you open the form at all or does it just not have data?

                    The form we sent you was designed using the same active X control as the sample in A5.

                    Jim

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