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General => Ask Reuben => Topic started by: Reuben B. on September 29, 2023, 01:33:58 am



Title: Ask Reuben 194 - Refreshing Tables
Post by: Reuben B. on September 29, 2023, 01:33:58 am
In legacy 4gl code, to refresh a Table you might have had some DISPLAY statements in a FOR loop.  In the last Ask-Reuben I demonstrated how you could use DISPLAY ARRAY with  BEFORE DISPLAY EXIT DISPLAY to redisplay the Table.  There was another scenario where legacy 4gl code was clunky in that to refresh a Table, this involved exiting the current dialog, repopulate the array, and then starting the dialog again.
 
What the developer was unaware of was that by using Multiple Dialog and UNBUFFERED, that Table could be updated from the current dialog.

Read more at https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-194/