Greetings.

A simple form has a formatted memo field on it (among others). If the field
already has text entered into it, I can highlight some text, right click
and choose Properties and adjust the font, etc.

Here's the problem - if I haven't changed any of the text, then the font
changes don't stick. As soon as I leave the field, it returns to the old
font.

Here's the sequence of events (literally):

A. This didn't work - don't change any text, just highlight & change properties:
1 class=DataAction action=3078 DataBeginEdit
2 class=EditAction action=2577 EditProperties
3 class=DataAction action=3080 DataLockRecord
4 class=EditAction action=2588 EditEnterMemoView
5 class=EditAction action=2598 EditPropertySheet
6 class=EditAction action=2588 EditEnterMemoView
7 class=DataAction action=3081 DataUnlockRecord


B. This works - type in a space, then highlight & change properties:
1 class=DataAction action=3078 DataBeginEdit
2 class=DataAction action=3080 DataLockRecord
3 class=EditAction action=2588 EditEnterMemoView
4 class=EditAction action=2577 EditProperties
5 class=EditAction action=2598 EditPropertySheet
6 class=EditAction action=2588 EditEnterMemoView
7 class=DataAction action=3081 DataUnlockRecord

The only difference is where EditProperties happens. If it is before DataLockRecord,
then my changes don't stick. If after, then all is well.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Can anyone duplicate
it? BTW, I'm using the latest Pdox 9 on XPhome.

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

Jim

I can't recreate your problem, but take a look at PX0662 in my buglist.


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Bertil,

It fails in my test on a stand-alone machine. But, I think it confirms my
suspicion of what is going on.

If you just change the formatting without changing anything else on a record,
Pdox isn't setting the 'touched' property of the record to 'true'. Thus,
in my case, when I leave the field, the update is lost. In PX0662's case,
when the dataRefresh happens, it doesn't think you've changed anything so
it refreshes the record.

Make sense?

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

Bertil,

This seems to fix it. Does it rate the buglist? Note that I couldn't find
any way to tell if they cancelled off of the Properties dialog without changing
anything.

method action(var eventInfo ActionEvent)
var targObj uiObject endVar
if eventInfo.isPreFilter() then
;// This code executes only for the form
if eventInfo.actionClass() = EditAction then
if eventInfo.id() = EditPropertySheet then
eventInfo.getTarget(targObj)
targObj.touched = true
endif
endif
else
;// This code executes for each object on the form
endif

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

Jim

You said you were using the latest P9. Which one do you refer to? Which
build number? I tested on P9 SP4, build 883, and I couldn't recreate your
problem.

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Bertil,

Oops, I'm on 9.00.738. Isn't that the latest version of Runtime though?
I want to make sure those stay in sync. I'm the only one who uses Pdox
- all my customers use Runtime.

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

738 is the latest version of P9 Runtime. This could be something that was
fixed in P9 SP4.

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Michael
<<
SP4 may be the latest version, but I have heard that SP3 is better (more
stable) than SP4 in P9.
SP 4 introduced a couple of bugs related to wide tables, more than 30
columns. Besides that, SP 4 fixed some bugs that existed in SP 3.

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Jim,
I'm with RT ...738 and could not recreate what you mentioned.
Tried it with a formatted memofield within a table displayed as well in a
tableframe as also at the same moment in a stand-alone field. It didn't
happen.
But I've seen similar problems with the formatting of stand alone-memo
fields when I tried to use the content within a method and the field had the
focus. Sometimes colors didn't stick then, so I had to move the focus first
anywhere (to post it).

Egbert, 00:30 AM, temp. in Spain

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