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    buffers and assign statement

    Marian, your code sample worked like a charm. it appears the piece i was missing was the FIND-CURRENT() method. All i needed to do was add that, and wrap it in a DO TRANSACTION block. Also, nice tip on the shortcut for naming the field buffhndl::fieldname. That also worked like a charm. Very...
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    buffers and assign statement

    The code i wrote is ugly. But, it is functioning. So, I was taken off it for now. However, probably over the upcoming weekend, I'll get back on it because it just feels wrong the way it is now. I feel like i should be able to pass the buffer by name (or handle) to a procedure as input, and use...
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    buffers and assign statement

    After reading your comment about avoiding shared buffers, and looking more closely at the example. I think i know what i did wrong. I was passing the handle of the buffer and not defining a locally scoped buffer for the internal procedure. So, i tried to make a shared buffer. Anyway, I'll give...
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    buffers and assign statement

    Im a bit confused about buffers. I'm currently running 9.1D I had defined a shared buffer. then sent the handle to that buffer as input to an internal procedure the procedure was then supposed to update one of the fields in the buffer. However, it didn't work ask expected. It didn't generate...
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    DIALOG-BOX: Display statement & Hidden Attribuite.

    Our company uses a vantage, which has only a run-time license for progress. We are currently on 9.1.D. my procedure, contains a frame viewed as a dialog box, with another nested dialog-box to confirm the chosen action. The nested dialog asks "are you sure you want to do this?" which is shown...
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