EXITING A VALID METHOD

[FMSOFT]

Hi There, I am fmsoft. I develop visual Foxpro applications IN version 6 and 9 (NON WEB BASED). I have an issue... How Do I click on let's say, a 'Cancel' button once I am in a valid method of an object on a given form, if the object I am validating returns 0 OR .F. please help?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Place the Cancel button on a toolbar. Since toolbars never get focus, the object in question will never lose focus, so the Valid won't fire. In the same way, you can also cancel from a menu bar.

Welcome to the forum, by the way.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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[Olaf Doschke]

If you place the button on a form, you should set it's Cancel Proeprty to .T. , this way the button also causes a keypress of ESC, and your validation code must let this pass through, then by checking IF LASTKEY()=27. If that's the case, don't validate.

In general validating data right in the valid event is a bummer, you typically buffer data and only validate whole records or even all changes before saving.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[FMSOFT]

Thank you Guys, and by the way, I apologize for inserting my subject above with Caps, I only later realized that its NOT forum ethics.