Re: Forms 4.5 Text item/pop list

In article <4tb37h$plb_at_canton.charm.net>, Jan Meisler <meislerj_at_charm.net> wrote:
>I have an unusual problem....or at least I think so. I am trying to
>validate the value in a text item when I leave a text item. If the value
>entered is not a legal value, I want an LOV to pop up. I put all of this
>in a WHEN-VALIDAE-ITEM trigger, and everything worked great....for a
>bit. When leaving the text item, if I click with my mouse in a poplist,
>the poplist immediately pops up. Once the poplist disappears, then the
>LOV for the previous item appears if necessary.

Your poplist shouldn't be showing up before the LOV, but it does, and I think Oracle ought to fix it. But since you can't hold your breath that long, try this:

Either at the form level, or on each poplist where the problem occurs, create a When-Mouse-Down trigger, that does:   Validate(ITEM_SCOPE);
This should cause your When-Validate-Item trigger to run. Actually, you should just set "LOV For Validation" to True on the item rather than doing it from a When-Validate-Item trigger.

HTH
Steve Cosner Received on Mon Jul 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST