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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:11:42 PST
- Sender: "Discussion on the use of the dBase language and related
- dialects" <DBASE-L@NMSUVM1.BITNET>
- From: VHASS%CAT700.gm@HAC2ARPA.HAC.COM
- Subject: Re: recognize current field n
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- >Excuse me - are we talking about knowing the NAME of the field being edited
- >before moving to the next field? That's easily done with VARREAD(). Or are
- >we talking about knowing the CONTENTS of the field? In that case, the VALID
- >clause of the READ statement would seem to me to be the way to go (dBASE IV
- >and FoxPro).
-
- We are talking about both! The need is to recognize the field name as well
- as the contents of that field (after the contents have been edited) without
- leaving that field.
-
- I don't think I will be able to use READ since the user has the choice of
- inputting the data into any of the fields and a READ after every GET would
- require the user to either enter the contents or press return. I want to
- make use of the same screen format that the user uses to append/edit records.
-
- Vishwa
-