Re: Display of Field Updates on Form

Paul & Miyako,

Thanks for your input.  I tried the resize form ideas without any  
results.  The only way I could
get the fool thing to work was to do a SAVE RECORD & LOAD RECORD  
combo.  Luckily, I
am inside of a transaction and can roll back the changes later, if  
needed.

Bill

On May 15, 2008, at 12:33 PM, MIYAKO wrote:

> Hello.
>
> REDRAW and REDRAW WINDOW are no longer relevant and have no  
> practical effect.
> CALL PROCESS(-1), or RESIZE FORM WINDOW(0;0), as you have rightly  
> pointed out,
> is the current way to redraw.
>
> to be more specific, you need to fire a form method, which both of  
> the above effectively does.
>
> the real question is, why would you need to redraw outside the  
> context of a form event?
>
> an understandable situation would be, that you have updated the  
> values within a plugin.
> in such cases you may execute Variable:=Variable just to notify 4D  
> which Variable requires a redraw.
>
> I have no definite explanation for the case Bill is seeing,
> (obviously an On Clicked event has been fired),
> perhaps it has to do with the layout order (level) of each objects  
> on the form
> and the manner in which 4D draws individual objects (from back to  
> front).
>
> maybe only Variables are subject to such immediate updates
> whereas records require LOAD RECORD.
>
> miyako
>
> On 2008/05/16, at 3:57, Paul Mohammadi wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> I curse 4D's ability or rather inability to update form elements on a
>> daily basis... sometimes they work flawlessly, sometimes they choke.
>> REDRAW command is pathetically ineffective.
>>
>> The one sure fire way I found out that the form elements are drawn
>> correctly is by resizing the window by 1 pixel... Create your own
>> wrapper REDRAW_FORM where the form window is re-sized 1 pixel and  
>> then
>> immediately re-sized back 1 pixel, this way the original window XY is
>> maintained and everything on the form is updated... drawbacks are...
>> output windows and subforms need to re-page their data from the  
>> server
>> creating needless I/O but otherwise It should work.
>
>> On May 15, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Bill Desjardin wrote:
>>> To All,
>>>
>>> I am seeing a strange situation re display of field updates on a  
>>> form opened by a MODIFY RECORD command.  I have some buttons on  
>>> the form, that when clicked, update the values stored in some  
>>> fields of the record.  Some of the fields immediately display the  
>>> updated values on the form, but others do not.  I have some  
>>> fields that always show the updates, some fields never show the  
>>> updates and some that show the updates some of the time.  These  
>>> results are on Mac OS 10.4.11 using 4D 2004.6r2.  If I switch to  
>>> Windows 2000 or XP, the display results that show sometimes on  
>>> Mac do not display at all.  I have tried all of the trickery that  
>>> I can think of without being able to obtain reliable results.   
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Bill Desjardin
>>>
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