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- From: jaakola@cc.helsinki.fi
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: How to auto-start the field editor...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.084441.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 06:44:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.183451.29875@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In article <1992Jul23.183451.29875@unixg.ubc.ca>, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George chow) writes:
- > (I'm using Forms 3.) I've been trying to get the Field Editor to start up
- > automatically upon entry of one of my fields. I've tried calling the
- > packaged procedure EDIT_FIELD in both KEY-NXTFLD and PRE-FIELD triggers and
- > neither of them works. My situation is like this:
- >
- > FIELD SEQ NO
- > Building_Code 3
- > Address 4
- >
- > I attached the KEY-NXTFLD trigger to Building_Code but even with a go_field,
- > I get stuck editing the Building_Code field. With the PRE-FIELD trigger,
- Really? According to my intuition, it should work... the go_field was
- before the EDIT_FIELD, wasn't it? What says the manual?
-
- > I can a run-time error of:
- >
- > FRM-40737: Illegal restricted procedure EDIT_FIELD in PRE-FIELD trigger.
- >
- > I've gone through all the triggers and I can't see which other triggers I can
- > use to auto-start the field editor. Is this possible? Thanks for any help.
- Look at the ON-NEW-FIELD-INSTANCE.
- --
- Juhani Jaakola
- jaakola@cc.helsinki.fi
-