ON UPDATE block

The ON UPDATE trigger can be used to enable row modification during a DISPLAY ARRAY dialog. If this block is defined, the dialog will automatically create the update action. This action can be decorated, enabled and disabled as regular actions.

You typically configure the TABLE container in the form by defining the DOUBLECLICK attribute to "update", in order to trigger the update action when the user double-clicks on a row.

If the dialog defines an ON ACTION update interaction block and the ON UPDATE block is used, the compiler will stop with error -8408.

When the user fires the update action, the dialog executes the user code of the ON UPDATE block.

The dialog handles only the row modification action and navigation, you must program the record input with a regular INPUT statement, to let the end user modify the data of the current row. This is typically done with an INPUT binding explicitly array fields to the screen record fields, with the WITHOUT DEFAULTS clause. The current row in the program array is identified with arr_curr(), and the current screen line in the form is defined by scr_line():
DISPLAY ARRAY arr TO sr.*
  ...
  ON UPDATE
    INPUT arr[arr_curr()].* WITHOUT DEFAULTS FROM sr[scr_line()].* ;
    ...

Pay attention to the semicolon ending the INPUT instruction, which is usually needed here to solve a language grammar conflict when nested dialog instructions are implemented.

After the user code is executed, the dialog gets the control back and processes the current row as follows:

  • If the INT_FLAG global variable is FALSE and STATUS is zero, the modified values of the current row are kept in the program array.
  • If the INT_FLAG global variable is TRUE or STATUS is different from zero, the old values of the current row are restored in the program array.

The DISPLAY ARRAY dialog always resets INT_FLAG to FALSE and STATUS to zero before executing the user code of the ON UPDATE block.

If needed, the ON UPDATE handler can be configured with action attributes by added an ATTRIBUTES() clause, as with user-defined action handlers:
  ON UPDATE ATTRIBUTES(TEXT=%"custlist.delete", IMAGE="listdel")