Hi Steve,
I was reading Hacker's Guide at this moment too. I've just tested it, and it is not re-evaluated by form.refresh(). So, I don't see a point of using these constructions in the form. They make code more complicated, but don't serve any purpose...
>Nadya,
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>Well, when it is assigned in this fashion at runtime, it doesn't seem to respond dynamically like I thought it would. According to Hacker's guide, it would be most useful in builders (at design time), or to assign expressions to new properties created with addproperty() at run-time.
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>In my colleague's code I see the following:
>>ThisForm.Cpageframe1.Page1.Wgpageframe1.Page1.writeexpression('Caption',[=("Current Record"+" of "+ALLTRIM(STR(Thisform.pnaddresses))+" total addresses")])
>>ThisForm.Cpageframe1.Page1.writeexpression('Caption',[=("Property Addr - ("+ALLTRIM(STR(Thisform.pnaddresses))+")")])
>>ThisForm.Cpageframe1.Page1.Wgpageframe1.Page1.cmdpreviousaddress.refresh()
>>ThisForm.Cpageframe1.Page1.Wgpageframe1.Page1.cmdnextaddress.refresh()
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>>Do you know, why he is using WriteExpression and not just Page1.Caption = ...
>>What is benefit/disadvantage of one way to another?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
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