Forms4.5: new_form causes ask-commit-question

[Ton Schalke]

Hi all,

I have a form with outstanding changes, but I don't want to save them or
have forms asking me to save them. In the form I have made two triggers:
key-exit en when-window-closed. Both have the same code:
exit_form(no_validate). Works fine. But if I start another form with
new_form, then forms starts asking me 'Do you want to save the changes
you have made?'. Does anybody know which trigger I can use to prevent
this?

Thanks,
Ton

[Steve Cosner]

Just before you issue the New_Form command, do this:

CLEAR_FORM(NO_VALIDATE,FULL_ROLLBACK);

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If you want to lose the changes you can add a rollback command to your
triggers. exit_form(no_validate, to_savepoint) will roll back to a
savepoint you have previously set (when you opened the form, for
example), full_rollback will roll back all uncommited changes.

In article <382890A8...@worldonline.nl>,
Ton Schalke <tsch...@worldonline.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,

>
> I have a form with outstanding changes, but I don't want to save them
or
> have forms asking me to save them. In the form I have made two
triggers:
> key-exit en when-window-closed. Both have the same code:
> exit_form(no_validate). Works fine. But if I start another form with
> new_form, then forms starts asking me 'Do you want to save the changes
> you have made?'. Does anybody know which trigger I can use to prevent
> this?
>

> Thanks,
> Ton
>

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[Ton Schalke]

Thanks for the suggestions.
I have forgotten to mention something important. The new_form command is
not issued from the old form, but from a menu. I think the question 'Do
you want to save the changes you have made?' is raised somewhere between
the triggers post-block and post-form. But I can't find the trigger
where I can put an clear_form or exit_form.
Ton

Steve Cosner wrote:

>
> Ton Schalke wrote:
> > I have a form with outstanding changes, but I don't want to save them or
> > have forms asking me to save them. In the form I have made two triggers:
> > key-exit en when-window-closed. Both have the same code:
> > exit_form(no_validate). Works fine. But if I start another form with
> > new_form, then forms starts asking me 'Do you want to save the changes
> > you have made?'. Does anybody know which trigger I can use to prevent
> > this?
>

[Neville Sweet]

Ton,

Since the new_form is in your menu, add the Clear_Form to the menu's Command
Text, prior to the New_Form.
This would, of course, apply to all programs that share the menu. Without
thinking too much about it, you could do something like:
IF Get_Application_Property(CURRENT_FORM_NAME) = 'yourform'
THEN
Clear_Form(----);
END IF;
New_Form('anotherform');

Rather than hard-code the form name in your menu, a more generic method
would be to use a Global, which you could set in a When-New-Form-Instance
and then test in your menu.

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