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What are the benefits of FORMS over standard EIP (Edit-In-Place)
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File-Loaded Drop Box template (no hand coding) |
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File-Loaded Drop Combo template (no hand coding) |
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FieldLookupButtons – Trigger an Entry Control Lookup |
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Field Priming on Insert template prompts, or use the ThisWindow.PrimeUpdate method |
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TakeCompleted method for doing something just before/after the record is written to disk |
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Standard record validation embed points, and AcceptAll mode on a form |
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Easy setting of REQ required field attribute |
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Easy setting of UPR or CAP, for upper case or capitalize entry fields |
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More understandable as the form update code is in a separate procedure from the browse code |
Wouldn’t it be nice to have all these benefits on
your EIP browse? Especially without all that hand coding?
Simply design your form like you normally would using all the above benefits, then when you’re ready, drop the VEIP extension template onto the browse and form and you have instant VEIP.
VEIP automatically resizes the form window at runtime over
the listbox row, and handles Up/Down arrow, Tab/ShiftTab and Enter keys just
like a normal EIP browse.
VEIP is available for both C55 and C5b ABC and legacy templates.
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Standard EIP is disallowed on ClarioNET |
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VEIP is a standard form so it works with ClarioNET (Actual testing indicates that speed of opening/resizing window may be an issue) |
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ENTRY fields will not display double byte characters (eg Chinese) when using internationalization, so this prevents using any string ENTRY fields in EIP |
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VEIP is a separate form, so you can design your entry fields with a TEXT control allowing the double-byte characters to display |
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Some doubt has been expressed on newsgroups whether EIP implements proper concurrency checking on a network. |
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VEIP is a standard form so handles this correctly. |
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You must layout the form fields in the exact same order as the browse. |
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If you dynamically reorder the browse fields, then you must do likewise to the form fields |
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You cannot have more fields in the browse that will show in the listbox row. i.e. horizontal scrolling of the listbox is NOT supported. |
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You cannot click on another listbox row to complete the form. |
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You must use the keyboard or the Optional OK, CANCEL, HELP buttons to complete the form. |
Download standalone C62 ABC demo (708kb - 4 Aug 2005)
Download standalone C55 ABC demo (577kb - 1.4a - 7 January 2004)
Download standalone C63 Legacy demo (602kb - 11-Jan-2008)
Cost USD$ 99 for either ABC or Legacy version. USD$149 for both.
