Trigger another Event from an event

[Ericl]

Hello,

I have created an XDialog box that has a button placed on the box that is used to look up some information. When the button is triggered the user is being presented with some information and will make a choice. The information the user chooses is then placed in a text field on a form. The text field has an On_change event that fire if the user enters information in this field, but it is currently not being executed when the button is pressed and I populate this field from another event.

I have looked in the XDialog reference but I have not found what I am looking for yet. Is there a way to trigger an event on another field from the event of a field in an xDialog box.


Thanks in advance

Eric Lommatsch

[Cheryl Lemire]

Hi Eric,

For type-in fields, the OnChange event fires when the control looses focus. For radio button, two-state button, multi-state button, and list box fields, the OnChange event fires as soon as the fields value changes.

You can add code to set focus to the field object in the tab order after the field you are populating via xdialog, this might possibly cause the OnChange event of your field to 'fire' as it should then lose focus.

Since the CanDepart Event fires just before the field looses focus, you might try to place your OnChange code for the field to the CanDepart event (I am not sure if this would work).

I have not tested either of these, but they seem like they might give you alternatives.

Let us know what you end up with.

Good luck
Cheryl

[Tim Kiebert]

Eric,

I have not tested this but I would try the following. Transfer the code that is currently in the form field OnChange event into a global script. (Contol panel-code tab-new-script) Then put a play script command in the event to run the code. In the code section of the xDialog also add a run script command. You could put it with the logic that populates the field so it runs as soon as the field changes or put it together with the closing of the dialog logic so it runs when the dialog closes.

Hope this is of some help.

[Scott Emerick]

Eric,

I am a bit confused as to where your looking to have this "OnChange" event fire. Is it on a form or a XDialog?

Do you have a form with a text field AND a modeless XDialog box with a button on it which looks up the data to place in the forms text field?

-or-

Do you have a XDialog that has a text field AND a button to which looks up the data also on the XDialog?

Is the button opening another form, or another dialog?

Does the XDialog close when the user makes a selection?

More info will help me answer your question.

Scott

[Ericl]

Figured Out What I needed

Hello everybody,

Thanks for the help that you provided. Thanks to the input that was provided I was able to figure what I needed to do. In looking at what I am trying to do I really did not need to need to run the whole _changed event. All that I really needed to do was to set the dirty flag = .t. and that gave me the behavior I was looking for but the suggestions that were given did point in the direction that I was able to figure this out.

Thanks for the help

Eric Lommatsch