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Subject:Re: Record Unlocking
Date:Fri, 22 Jun 2018 07:58:21 -0500
From:Mark Bannister <markRemove@THISinjection-moldings.com>
Newsgroups:pnews.paradox-programming
Currrecord() can cause data loss if there is really and uposted record.

On 6/21/2018 8:30 PM, Peter wrote:
> Hmm, been doing some thinking and observing since I posted this question.
> 
> It seems that the problem is only the last defined field that has been 
> changed and focus remains on the field, ie not departing.
> 
> The button I click has TabStop property set to False so focus would not 
> leave the field and therefore the record would be locked by Pdox? But 
> the status bar does not have a "Locked" mssg.
> 
> So if that were the case maybe all I have to do is find out which field 
> has focus and issue an unlockRecord()?
> 
> Update:
> Well that didn't work either
> 
> I used a tc.currRecord()and that seems to have solved the problem so far.
> 
> I have no idea why the table and the tcursor cannot sync up with resync, 
> nor why the tcursor is not up to date when I issue an unlock.
> 
> On 06/21/2018 12:50 PM, Peter wrote:
>> I have been fighting a stubborn issue of not being able to post/unlock 
>> a record. Finally found the problem and have been able to make a fix 
>> but it is clumsy and I hope someone can provide an alternative.
>>
>> I have a form and several tables in the datamodel. The one table (call 
>> it tableA) at issue is not linked.
>>
>> Several fields on the form are defined from tableA
>>
>> I use a tc.dmAttach("TableA") to make changes to records as well as 
>> unlocking. The problem I ran into is that after unlocking the data 
>> would not post to the table.
>>
>> I tried TableA.dmResync(tc) - did not solve the problem
>> I tried dmResync(TableA,tc) - did not solve the problem
>> I tried field.unlockRecord (using one of the defined fields)and that 
>> worked when that field had been changed.
>>
>> I then tried field.unlockRecord() for all defined fields and that 
>> worked, as such:
>> field1.unlockRecord()
>> field2.unlockRecord()
>> field3.unlockRecord()
>> field4.unlockRecord()
>> more...
>> tc.unlockRecord()
>>
>> What seems to happen is that if a defined field's value has been 
>> changed then it needs a distinct unlock/post record
>>
>> So, is there a way to unlock all the define fields of a single table 
>> (in the datamodel) in one statement instead of independantly?
>>
>> ps I also put a self.unLockRecord() in the :depart: method of each 
>> defined field and that worked also, again clumsy I think.


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