Re: Mirrored items/navigation around in Forms 4.5?

>I have a block with about 6 items in it -- 3 are base table items, the other
>3 are mirrored items of those. I set it up so that the mirrored items
have a
>different canvas view than the others.
>
>So, my block looks like this:
>
>SSN (canvas1)
>FNAME (canvas1)
>LNAME (canvas1)
>SSN1 (canvas2)
>FNAME1 (canvas2)
>LNAME1 (canvas2)
>
>Well, after the person is in canvas 1, I want them to go to another
block in
>canvas 1. I do not want them to go to canvas2 yet. I have tried various
>triggers on LNAME (when-mouse-leaves, post-text-item) and I get an illegal
>procedure message. (FRM-40437: Illegal restricted procedure go_block in
>POST-TEXT-ITEM trigger) (I also tried go_item instead of go_block).
>
>Any help will be appreciated!
>
>

I'm not sure what version of Forms you are using, but if it is at least 4.5, then maybe what you should look at is making canvas 2 a 'Stacked' canvas (one of the properties of a canvas; usually it is 'Content').Its kind of hard to explain in words, but basically define canvas 1 to be full size, and of type 'Content'. Define canvas 2 to be smaller, and position it so the fields you want on canvas 1 are still visible when canvas 2 is active. It will automatically be placed on top when you navigate to an item on that canvas. Try it - it really works.If canvas 2 is actually larger than its display area, you can get a horizontal scroll bar in - kind of a split-screen effect. Once I saw this trick, I have used it extensively.

Dan Hekimian-Williams Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 04:58:50 CEST