[Gambas-user] Safety for collections. Solved! Hah!

[BB]

On 24/8/23 11:29 pm, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 8/24/23 08:25, BB wrote:
>> _Usecase_
>>
>> 1. User clicks on an item in the list. System loads and displays the 
>> related object in the editor form.
>>
>> 2. User changes the object name and does nothing else.
>>
>> 3. (While focus is still on the name textbox or even after stuffing 
>> around in other editor controls and then shifting back) User presses 
>> Ctl+Z
>>
>> ---> The text reverts to the original but the "changed" indicator is 
>> still set to true.
>>
>> This gets even worse when they do repeated changes and undos.
>>
>
> * Monitor keypress events on the ObjectName field and use "Ctrl+Z" as 
> a trigger to reset the semaphore?
> * When the editor form loads, save the value of the ObjectName field 
> to a global var, and then upon Save, compare the values?
>
> ??
>
Thanks Lee!

Finally got it working. Or to be true, finally got my head twisted the 
right way around and thanks to all who replied, worked out where I was 
going wrong (I was trying to do it from the "collection end" when I 
should have just looked at what the user was trying to do. Sheeesh, am I 
getting that old?)

cheers

b