>>Hi,
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>>Say I have a text box on a form/window. The Refresh of the text box has a code that get the value from a child table (based on a PK) and puts it into the .Value property.
>>Does this code still fire when the textbox Visible property is set to .F.?
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>>TIA
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>I believe not, but it should be easy to test - just add some wait window in that method to see
The Refresh fires even when the control's property Visible is set to .F. and the Enabled = .F. I guess to make this code not to fire, I will have to create some semaphore variable. I thought VFP would not fire the Refresh of a hidden control. But I was mistaken.
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