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Thread: Using Application.Forms in 6.2

Richard
Posts: 33

Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 10:27 AM

I have a form that I want to get values from another open form, so I thought "Hey! I'll just use Application.Forms()." Sounds good, and I know it works because SLX uses it in the Potential Matches form. But it doesn't work for me, instead I get a syntax error "Error at line: -1, character: 1". I found that any use of Application.Forms... would get this result (although the Potential Matches checks out fine), even if it's a single line as in my new, single-line script on a manage form:

intCountForms = Application.Forms.Count

that's it. That's the whole script and it won't pass the syntax check although I can't see why it won't.

Any clues? Thanks.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 1:37 PM

if all you're wanting to do is get a reference to another form, just use something like this:

Dim frm
 
    Set frm = Application.Forms("Famly:FormPluginName")
    If Not frm Is Nothing Then
        frm.Edit1.Text = "Some value"
        'etc...
    End If

Make sense? Did I miss something you were trying to do?

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Richard
Posts: 33

Re: Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 1:56 PM

That's actually what I started out trying to do. Sadly, I found that using Application.Forms would bomb.
As a test I created a manage form with no controls and this as the script:

option explicit
dim oFrm
set oFrm = Application.Forms("Personal:MyForm")

I found that the Set oFrm line wouldn't pass the syntax check ("Error at line: -1, character: 1"). If I comment out the last line, it works, but that's just to affirm what caused the error.

I'd certainly like this to work as I can see that it's very useful.

I tried this same thing on a version 7 installation with the same result, so I figure that I'm missing something.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 1:58 PM

You posted this code:

option explicit
dim oFrm
set oFrm = Application.Forms("Personal:MyForm")

Is that exactly as you have it in your script? Is the code contained inside a sub or function?

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Richard
Posts: 33

Re: Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 2:18 PM

Yes, exactly. Pretty amazing, isn't it?

These really are the only three lines in a newly-created manage form. No other changes have been made to the form.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 2:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Richard

These really are the only three lines in a newly-created manage form.

That is your problem. Move the code inside Sub Main and you should be fine.

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Richard
Posts: 33

Re: Using Application.Forms in 6.2 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 13 Oct 06 2:41 PM

Live and learn...
Thank you again, Ryan.

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