Agreed these are troublesome situations, but I can't see any of these
justifying the fact that AutoEdit doesn't update the (windows)field
that initiates the AutoEdit before it applies the key pressed.

The user will always observe that something went wrong, and have the
possibility to correct it.
As it is now, he have no way of knowing that he just erased some
important information (in a text field).
That is BAD.
The situations described below are ANNOYING.
(sorry for yelling, but I just had to get out my feelings ;)

sincerely
frode

--- In IBObjects@y..., "Jason Wharton" <jwharton@i...> wrote:
> Excellent observation and explanation.
> There are indeed some controls and editing styles that make AutoEdit
> problematic.
>
> Jason Wharton
> CPS - Mesa AZ
> http://www.ibobjects.com
>
> -- We may not have it all together --
> -- But together we have it all --
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marco Menardi" <mmenaz@l...>
> To: <IBObjects@y...>
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 6:57 AM
> Subject: [IBO] Re: cache sync - before edit
>
>
> > Just some thoughts. Put that in the client you have a boolean
type set
> > to false, while in the server it has been changed to true. The
user
> > wants to set it to true.
> > With autoedit OFF, you have.
> > a1) user clicks the "edit button"
> > a2) user sees that the field is true, so he does nothing (or
clicks
> > cancel)
> >
> > With autoedit ON:
> > b1) the user clicks to the checkbox to make it "checked"
> > b2) what shold the buffer update do? Get the updated data from the
> > server, then process the user input? Or force the user input as
the
> > right data? But what happens if you change the day of a date that
> > someone else has changed before, changing the month?
> >
> > Just some problems that autoedit brings with syncro with the
server. I
> > always use autoedit, but have not figured our how to solves this
> > problems...
> > regads
> > Marco Menardi
> >
> > --- In IBObjects@y..., "pi3k14" <frode@a...> wrote:
> > > Could you elaborate on "AutoEdit in apps is generally not a
good idea
> > > anyway." ?
> > > I find AutoEdit to be a nice feature, and refreshing all fields
when
> > > entering edit state (automatically) shouldn't be that
problematic ?
> > >
> > > sincerely
> > > frode