Mark or Erika,

Have you had a chance to verify this?

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I don't see this working either.

I just checked On Element Exit.  That seems to be working perfectly.

Mark,

This is the code that I used to test with. It was placed in the "[Form Name] :: On Form Change" event.

System ID = @FormFieldValue("DBS Commissions Form", "System ID", 0)
// This code was originally in OnFormChange, but it did not function if F6 was used to
// edit an element.  I also put it in OnElementChange.  It didn't work there either.
// So I put it in OnElementExit.  It seems to work perfectly there.
 

As I'm sure you can tell, the code is to set the Subform's System ID to match the Main Form's System ID. (I'm using relational linking for this subform.)

I would enter the subform, press the down arrow to display a new line/record, move to any element, press F6, make a change, press F6 again, then move out of the edited element either to another element, another line in the subform, or to the main form. In any case, it would not fill the System ID element.

I noticed that after closing the edit window, if rather than doing one of the above, I were to move to another element and begin to type, the System ID would update upon the 1st keystroke.  Now, that's different than the usual (except for On Element Immediate Change).  Usually, you make the change to an element, and upon exiting it, the program recognizes at that time that something has changed, and would fire.

I hope this helps. If you have more questions, let me know.

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Mark,

Well... not so perfectly.

Within the subform: if I down arrow to a new line (blank record) and up arrow without making any changes, that blank record disappears (programming should be filling System ID upon exiting the element, but it's not). Yet, when I save the main record with Ctrl-10 or F10, and return with F9, that unwanted subrecord is there with the System ID element filled.

Now forget all that.

Here's the root of the problem: after some testing, I found that the On Element Exit event is not firing every time I exit an element. If I click on an element (highlighting it in gray), then click on another element (same gray highlight), no event occurs until I click on a different subrecord or the main form. In the case of the main form, it fires TWO times. (Erika posted a message indicating that WriteLn may cause multiple firings, so I tested this without using it. I added one "*" to a text field at each firing.)

The only way to activate the element exit event while staying on the same subrecord, is to click twice on one element (changing the background to white), and then click twice on another element. The event only fires when the 2nd element's background turns white, rather than when you exit the 1st element.

I understand that being highlighted in gray maybe wasn't intended to be considered having "entered" an element, but leaving that element after having a white background should definitely constitute an element exit. Yet, you need to begin editing another element, making it's background white before the exit event of the previous element will fire.

Does that make sense?

Also, if you edit a subform element, then click straight to a main form element, your edits are lost.  Other methods of leaving the element (e.g. F10, Ctrl-F10, ArrowDown, Tab) retain them properly.

FYI:
To avoid confusion, I removed all other programming in the subform layout and the main layout to be sure I wasn't getting strange results due to other events interfering.

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I'm not seeing this in Countries.db. I put:

City = City + "A "

in the element exit of Population and it is firing as soon as I leave population, whether by single click of the mouse or by keyboard. The symptoms you describe sound like 1.0 or 1.0.1 - have you upgraded to 1.0.2?

I am seeing the bug wherein clicking on the main form from the "on element exit" field of the subform causes the on element exit event to fire twice.

Okay - I see it now. You have the On Element Exit code on the SubForm itself so it will fire no matter which element you exit?