updating all text items in a block programmatically with a loop
Date: 1997/05/01
Message-ID: <3368E5C9.A9C3BC81_at_crem.com>#1/1
[Quoted] I would like to be able to update the values all other text items after
editing one of the text items using a loop in a POST_TEXT_ITEM trigger.
I don't want to have to hard code references to the item names in my
assignment statements, but their doesn't seem to be a way to set the
value of a text item using SET_ITEM_PROPERTY. This function seems to
provide every property except for the value of text items. I can get the
first and last item ids using
GET_BLOCK_PROPERTY('my_block_name',FIRST_ITEM/LAST_ITEM) and
FIND_ITEM('my_block_name'||GET_BLOCK_PROPERTY('my_block_name',LAST_ITEM),
but then I can't assign the new value (I want to use the REPLACE
function to search/replace a string) without hard-coding the name of
each text item.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this?
Thanks
-- Steven W. Shaw Programmer - Pacific Ridge Data Resources (http://www.crem.com) work: sshaw_at_crem.com home: sshaw_at_west.netReceived on Thu May 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST