Easy way to save items with focus

[jehugaleahsa@gmail.com]

Hello:

We are running into an issue. Whenever our users save using either the
save key or a BindingNavigato r, whatever control is in focus won't be
updated. Our users are getting confused when they are asked whether
they want to save their changes.

Is there a way to force the the control changes to be accepted prior
to saving? Is there an easy way to add this to all of our code?

Thanks,
Travis

[Peter Duniho]

Re: Easy way to save items with focus

On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:04:33 -0700, jehugaleahsa@gm ail.com
<jehugaleahsa@g mail.comwrote:

We are running into an issue. Whenever our users save using either the
save key or a BindingNavigato r, whatever control is in focus won't be
updated. Our users are getting confused when they are asked whether
they want to save their changes.
>
Is there a way to force the the control changes to be accepted prior
to saving? Is there an easy way to add this to all of our code?

You're pretty vague about what you mean by "save items" and "changes to be
accepted", so I'll make some guesses: you've got controls that use data
binding to store their values to some data structure which can then be
explicitly saved by the user. Since data binding uses the control
validation logic to detect when to update the values, and since that
usually happens when a control's focus is changed, changes made to a
control without a subsequent change in focus are not updated in the bound
data structure.

If that's all correct, then you probably just need to call the
ValidateChildre n() method on your Form instance.

If that's not the answer, I'm afraid you're going to have to do a better
job asking the question. As I said, it's pretty vague as stated so far.

Pete

[jehugaleahsa@gmail.com]

Re: Easy way to save items with focus

On May 27, 3:48 pm, "Peter Duniho" <NpOeStPe...@nn owslpianmk.com>
wrote:

On Tue, 27 May 2008 14:04:33 -0700, jehugalea...@gm ail.com  
>
<jehugalea...@g mail.comwrote:

We are running into an issue. Whenever our users save using either the
save key or a BindingNavigato r, whatever control is in focus won't be
updated. Our users are getting confused when they are asked whether
they want to save their changes.

>

Is there a way to force the the control changes to be accepted prior
to saving? Is there an easy way to add this to all of our code?

>
You're pretty vague about what you mean by "save items" and "changes to be 
accepted", so I'll make some guesses: you've got controls that use data  
binding to store their values to some data structure which can then be  
explicitly saved by the user.  Since data binding uses the control  
validation logic to detect when to update the values, and since that  
usually happens when a control's focus is changed, changes made to a  
control without a subsequent change in focus are not updated in the bound  
data structure.
>
If that's all correct, then you probably just need to call the  
ValidateChildre n() method on your Form instance.
>
If that's not the answer, I'm afraid you're going to have to do a better  
job asking the question.  As I said, it's pretty vague as stated so far.
>
Pete

Nope, you got it right. I will try that tomorrow.

Thanks,
Travis