• A Procedure for Building Complex Expressions
• Benefits of Viewing Xbasic
• Closing a Dialog Box
• Code Editor File Functions
• Code Editor Functions
• Creating a Low Resolution Viewfile
• Creating and Programming Hotspots with Xbasic
• Ending the AlphaSports Application
• Global User Defined Functions
• Learning Xbasic - Using Xbasic with SQL Tables
• Opening the Default Form or Browse
• Other Code Editor Functions
• Referring to Form and Browse Objects
• Specifying Images in the Data
• Testing if a Form or Browse is Already Open
• Thread Example
• Trapping Other Events
• Trapping Tab Control Events
• Trapping the Change Event
• Understanding Functions
• User Settings
• Using AlphaDAO with Xbasic
• Using the Delimiter
• Using the Thread UI_Disable Property
• Using Xbasic to Control Access to a Form
• Using Xbasic to Create Queries
• Variable Scope
• Xbasic methods for the HTML and HTMLHOST Xdialog Commands

 

Opening the Default Form or Browse

Description

You can open the default browse or form for a table or set in Xbasic with FORM.VIEW():

Form.view("Default Form for tablename at full_tablename.dbf ")

Or a browse with BROWSE.VIEW():

Browse.view("Default Browse for tablename at full_tablename.dbf ")

Where tablename is the name of the table or set, and full_tablename is the name of the table or set, fully qualified with the drive and path. (In the case of a Set, you would use the .SET extension, not the .dbf extension). In addition, you many use the A5_OPEN_DEFAULT_BROWSE() and A5_OPEN_DEFAULT_FORM() functions.

Examples

Form.View("Default Form for customer@e:\a5v4\invoice\customer.dbf")
:DefaultForm_customer.activate()
Browse.View("Default Browse for customer@e:\a5v4\invoice\customer.dbf")
:DefaultBrowse_customer.activate()

Opening the default browse for form is useful if you have an Xbasic program that creates a new table. After the new table has been created, you may want to inspect the table in browse or form view and you want the Xbasic program to automatically open the form or browse. You cannot have a pre-existing named form or browse to refer to with the FORM.VIEW() method because the table is a new table.

See Also

• Summary of Methods for Opening Forms and Browses
• A5_OPEN_DEFAULT_FORM()
• A5_OPEN_DEFAULT_BROWSE()