Re: Forms, record'CurrentRec'OF 'TotalRecs' what's the best way to get CurrentRec?

steve deno wrote:

> All,
>
> I have seen this question talked about a few times in the archives,
> but I'm looking for more oppinion.
>
> In Forms 9i I need to display the current record number and the total
> count of records in a block. For the total, I just did the
> "precompute-summary-count thing", which works fine. Now the user also
> wants to always know what record they are on. I was originally
> thinking along the lines of doing a when-record-chnged, or
> when-new-item-instance trigger that would put the :system.cuurent_item
> into a variable. Would this make sense? I have to other constraints
> that make me want to look for a better way. First, I don't want to
> query all records because there could be many. Second, this block has
> dynamic sorting applied which I was thinking could get in the way.
>
> Is there a "standard" way of doing this?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> steve

In my forms the numbers show up in the lower left corner of the window on the status bar? Did you disable the default?

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