Re: developer 2000 forms disable button

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:32:55 GMT, ssharma24_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>Developer 2000 forms disable button
>situation:
>There is a “buttonA” that has two possible labels say “This” and “That”
>The “when button pressed trigger” on the “buttonA” changes the labels
>on it as well as switch the enable, displayed, navigable properties of
>two items say blocka.itema and blocka.itemb.
>If the cursor is inside the itema or itemb and the user press the
>buttona then the user gets errors…like can not change the property
>enabled, displayed of the current item…while the cursor is inside it…
>
>So, what I want to do is put an if statement somewhere saying disable
>buttona if the cursor is inside either of the above mentioned items..
>i.e.
>if (:system.current_item = :blocka.itema) (:system.current_item
>= :blocka.itemb) then
>set_item_property ('CONTROL.buttona', ENABLED, PROPERTY_FALSE);
>ELSE
>set_item_property ('CONTROL. buttona ', ENABLED, PROPERTY_TRUE);
>END IF;
>
>Problem: I don’t know where I should put this statement…..in what
>trigger???on the block???or the items in question???
>Please help…
>
>I tried.. putting
> set_item_property ('CONTROL.buttona', ENABLED, PROPERTY_FALSE);
>in when-new-item-instance on both the items…that did the trick…but then
>I didn’t know where to put the statement to enable the button again..
>
>thanks….

More simple, before disabling the button do a 'previous_item' or 'next_item'

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Luc Bosman
DEV/2000 Software Engineer
Database & Network Administrator
l.bosman_at_wanadoo.be                      ICQ 37011625
http://users.skynet.be/kobukai/
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