Getting Started with dBASE - Edit data in a read only form

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Edit data in a read only form

John Barfield

2006-01-03, 8:23 pm

I would like to use Library.wfm as a template for a contacts database. How do I remove the 'read only' attrbute from a copy of that file?

Michael Nuwer [dBVIPS]

2006-01-03, 8:23 pm

John Barfield wrote:
> I would like to use Library.wfm as a template for a contacts database. How do I remove the 'read only' attrbute from a copy of that file?

The form is not really "read only". It has the rowset's autoEdit
property set to false. This means that the rowset must be put into edit
(or append mode) manually.

In the dUFLP you will find a set of buttons in CustButt.cc with many
options to choose form. One of this is a set of editbuttons. Add the
following lines to your copy of library.wfm (add these using the editor
and place them somewhere in the form's constructor, i.e. after the
"Class ..." line and before the first function) and you see what I mean.

set procedure to :dUFLP:Custbutt.cc additive
this.EDITBUTTONS1 = new EDITBUTTONS(this)
with (this.EDITBUTTONS1)
left = 43.0
top = 5.0
width = 18.7
height = 1.4545
endwith

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