Subject Re: beginappend() Problem Fixed From Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net> Date Sat, 1 Jul 2023 00:59:20 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Ken and Mervyn, I'm glad I asked and read your comments. It made me realize the mistake was on me. I had forgotten, that I'm using a container around the buttons and there is no set rowset for the form. I call it navbar and it's a collection of buttons with that container from my .cc file. It's a direct call to the rowset, to provide the actions.  I fixed it by making the hardline connect to the rowset itself to call the rowset functions/methods. I had been using form.rowset...but that was an improper object reference, which is what the error box was giving me. :( Lee On 6/30/2023 11:25 AM, Mervyn Bick wrote: > On 2023/06/30 09:31, Lee Grant wrote: >> Ken, >> >> Along these lines, and somewhat related to this, if I have custom >> buttons, that I include in the set procedure and use in the form, is >> there something that prevents the button from knowing the form's >> rowset relation and being able to beginAppend() the rowset? >> >> I've created buttons on the app that does it, but my question goes to >> the reason a custom button brought in from another file doesn't know >> the forms rowset for the form that it was placed on? > > It doesn't know ANYTHING until you tell it.  A pushbutton actually does > absolutely nothing except sit on a form and look pretty. :-) > > The pushbutton does have some events that the user can trigger.  The > event probably used most often is the onClick event.  The problem is > that even triggering an event does absolutely nothing unless the > programmer has assigned an event handler (function or codeblock) to the > event.  This is true whether one is using a standard pushbutton or a > custom pushbutton. > > With a custom pushbutton there is a possibility that in the .cc file > event handlers have been assigned to events.  If no event handler has > been assigned in the .cc file to an event you want to use then simply > assign you own event handler exactly as you would with a standard > pushbutton. > > If an event handler has been assigned to an event in the .cc file you > have two choices.  You can completely bypass the event handler in the > .cc file by assigning your own event handler as with a standard > pushbutton.  Alternatively you can set up your own event handler with > additional code and execute the event handler in the .cc file. Depending > on the actual code you may need to execute the event handler in the .cc > file before or after you execute your own code. > > >     function cust_but1_onClick >        cust_but_classname::onclick() >         //additional code >        return > > or > >     function cust_but1_onClick >         //additional code >        return cust_but_classname::onclick() > > Mervyn. > > > > > > > > > > >