Re: How to auto-start the field editor...

In article <1992Jul23.183451.29875_at_unixg.ubc.ca>, george_at_unixg.ubc.ca (George chow) writes:
> (I'm using Forms 3.) I've been trying to get the Field Editor to start up
> automatically upon entry of one of my fields. I've tried calling the
> packaged procedure EDIT_FIELD in both KEY-NXTFLD and PRE-FIELD triggers and
> neither of them works. My situation is like this:
>
> FIELD SEQ NO
> Building_Code 3
> Address 4
>
> I attached the KEY-NXTFLD trigger to Building_Code but even with a go_field,
> I get stuck editing the Building_Code field. With the PRE-FIELD trigger,
Really? According to my intuition, it should work... the go_field was before the EDIT_FIELD, wasn't it? What says the manual?

> I can a run-time error of:
>
> FRM-40737: Illegal restricted procedure EDIT_FIELD in PRE-FIELD trigger.
>
> I've gone through all the triggers and I can't see which other triggers I can
> use to auto-start the field editor. Is this possible? Thanks for any help.
Look at the ON-NEW-FIELD-INSTANCE.

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Juhani Jaakola
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