Re: Forms 6 questions: boldfacing records....

Hi Ron,

Set_Item_Instance_Property will do this for you. Create bold-face and normal visual attributes and set appropriately. Unless there's a good reason I would avoid manually assigning values to non-base table items, because this is what the Post-Query trigger is designed for. Navigating around after query processing will affect performance. You can assign non-base table values and change bolding in the Post-Query and forget about a FOR LOOP.
If there is a separate requirement to change the visual attribute when, say, a button is pressed, then because Set_Item_Instance_Property accepts record number as a parameter you can set bold-face without navigating through the records.

If the above is no good to you then the trigger you are looking for is probably a When-New-Record-Instance trigger.

please help wrote in message ...
>Hello.
>I've got a "FOR LOOP" cursor setup in Forms 6.0 that manually assigns
 values
>to non-database fields on a canvas. I'm displaying about 15 records on the
>canvas. Inside of the LOOP, I would like to have an IF statement that,
 when
>true, will set the current record it is writing to bold face type, else set
>it to regular type.
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>Does anyone know how to do this? I could do it with a trigger if I was
 only
>displaying one record at a time on the screen, but I need to be able to
>display around 15.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>Ron Watson
>rwatson_at_kemron-lab<remove_me>.com
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Received on Tue Aug 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST