In DE85 you have virtual editable fields which means you can have fields as "data-entry field" anywhere - even in reports and on the form object directly that is not saved.

You can use these fields in a number of way. You can store the value in a global variable with SetVar() or you can reference it directly.

if you want to use it for data-entry in a traditonal DQL or report you use SetVar()/GetVar() and if you want to use ExecDQL you can use it directly as one of 4 direct data-entry varaibles.

ExecDQL("MyDQL text",Data-entry1,DataEntry2,data-entry3,dataentry4)

A simple ExecDQL to test is this:

execdql("message concat(/'My Message is: /', data-entry field1) window .",MyVirtualField)

Here you also ssee how we use escape characters to allow you to have " " inside a string.
/' will automatically be translated to ".

Try to create a virtual editable field in a form and put this script on a button like this.


The best way to figure out how we do things is simply to look at the code in the sample and "steal" what you like ;-)