Re: forms 4.5 - tricky focus

Before you start looping through the block to perform your updating, save the value of get_block_property(...,current_record). When you get to the end of your loop, Go_Record back to the saved record number.

Steve Cosner

In article <351513B1.5312C163_at_exlibris.co.il>, Ariel Kirson <arielk_at_exlibris.co.il> wrote:
>
> I have just finished implementing multiple selection of rows in a
> FORMS 4.5 table. This in itself was a tedious experience, but I
> have run into a new problem along the way.
>
> After I have performed an operation on multiple selections, I lose
> track of where I was before. i.e. I have chosen 3 records from the
> table and requested to update their status - immediately following
> this operation, the statuses are updated (by looping through all the
> records and performing the operation on each record in the
> selection), but the records displayed in the table are no longer the
> same records displayed before.
>
> My question:
>
> How can I remain in the same spot while performing these operations?
> Or perhaps, how can I return to the same spot after each operation,
> so as not to confuse the user and make him/her disoriented ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ariel Kirson
> Ex Libris Ltd.
Received on Mon Mar 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CET