Re: Forms 5.0 and global variables

Hmm - that's interesting -- I've never tried to set a global variable with a copy command...

Re: your question on Do Events, you're looking for 'synchronize'.

-jay

In article <36a5db89.532885466_at_news.eunet.no>,   obv_at_ssb.no (Ole Bredesen-Vestby) wrote:
> In Forms 5.0:
> At startup (WHEN-NEW-FORM-INSTANCE) I try to set some values into
> global variables.
> default_value('N','global.my_var');
>
> The problem is, when I run the form in Debug mode and steps thrugh the
> code lines, the value are set, but when I run it in a normal mode the
> variable is not set. It seems that Forms just ignores the statement.
> The error I get when I try to use the variable is: "Vaialble
> global.my_var does not exists."
>
> Why ?
>
> In Visual Basic there are a command Do Events, thats allow windows to
> catch up.. Does anyone knows if Forms has a similar function-call ?
>
> Has anyone else had this problem ?
>
> - Ole Bredesen-Vestby
> obv_at_ssb.no
>

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