Hi Larry,

1) I think you should be able BindEvent to form's methods in CA's init. I haven't tried in CA, but I did this for other inner objects in container hierarchy and it worked fine. Re-check your code.

2) From the Init of one form's object you can not reference another form's object. That's a generic rule and it is better not to break it. Of course, various workarounds exist, but better to move this code into form's Init when all objects are already available.


>Hi All,
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>I have two questions in one:
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>1. How do I get a BINDEVENT to work in the INIT of a Cursor Adapter, where the bind is on a THISFORM.Method reference?
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>I have a base textbox class with a BINDEVENT like:
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>BINDEVENT(THISFORM, "update_form_controls", THIS, "set_for_state", 1)
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>This action works. A call to THISFORM.update_form_controls fires the Control.set_for_state method on each control on the form. Apparently, the THISFORM in the BINDEVENT command in the INIT of the control is able to resolve the THISFORM reference at INIT-time.
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>However -- I place the same type of BINDEVENT in the INIT of a Cursor Adapter class and the action fails. Anyone know why?
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>2. How do I get a good THISFORM reference at INIT-time?
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>At INIT-time, I have a form control that wants to pull its data from a collection object on the form. It looks like:
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>THISFORM.o_form_coll && <-- the form collection with the control data.
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>Inside the control INIT is:
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>lo_form = THISFORM && <-- point of failure because THISFORM is not yet valid.
>lo_coll = lo_form.o_form_coll
>lv_data = lo_coll.get_data(THIS.c_csr_dot_field)
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>I know I am not the first person to address this and somewhere in the past I have seen and implemented strategies to handle it, but cannot remember what I or others did.
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>Thanks in advance for your help.
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>Larry