RE: Retain values in construct statement

David and all,

  Thanks very much for everyone's quick and detail response.  I will try it 
out.

  Thanks again. best wishes


regards,
bill yap



>From: "David Tobin" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [fourjs-users] Retain values in construct statement
>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:03:41 +1000
>
>
>Bill,
>
>When you exit the 'construct 2' use 'get_fldbuf' to save the the values
>entered in the screen fields.
>
>Ie
>          LET l_string1 = NULL
>          LET l_string2 = NULL
>
>          WHILE(TRUE)
>		    LET l_going_up = FALSE
>
>
>                  CONSTRUCT BY NAME where_string1 ON screen_field1,
>screen_field2
>
>                          BEFORE CONSTRUCT
>                                  DISPLAY l_string1 TO screen_field1
>                                  DISPLAY l_string2 TO screen_field2
>
>                          AFTER CONSTRUCT
>                                  LET l_string1 = get_fldbuf(screen_field1)
>                                  LET l_string2 = get_fldbuf(screen_field2)
>
>                  END CONSTRUCT
>
>
>                  CONSTRUCT BY NAME where_string2 ON screen_fielda,
>screen_fieldb
>
>                          AFTER CONSTRUCT
>					  IF 'your condition here ??' THEN
>						LET l_going_up = TRUE
>				        END IF
>                  END CONSTRUCT
>
>
>                  IF NOT l_going_up THEN
>                          EXIT WHILE
>                  END IF
>          END WHILE
>
>1st time through the initialized varables will be displayed, 2nd time
>through the varables will contain the data that was previously entered.
>
>Or something like that.
>
>Regards
>
>Dave Tobin
>Reece Australia
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Bill Yap
>Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2005 3:48 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [fourjs-users] Retain values in construct statement
>
>To all,
>     is it possible to retain values entered in contruct statement?
>     For example, CONSTRUCT 1 and CONSTRUCT 2, entered some values in
>CONSTRUCT 1, move to CONSTRUCT 2 - then entered some values in CONSTRUCT 2.
>Now go back to CONSTRUCT 1.  Values entered before is still in the fields.
>
>     Tried to look in the forums and manual but could not find anything.  
>Any
>help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>
>regards,
>Bill Yap
>Log-ON Business Systems, LLC
>
>
>