My main question is still, how do I determine if the record the other
user changed is in my dataset that is on th ecurrent user so I can
determine to invalidate the record or not.

Thanks,

Matt

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, Lester Caine <lester@l...> wrote:
> > I'm doing this to prevent an InvalidateBookmark on a record that
is
> > not displayed on the users screen for multi-user synchonization.
> >
> > Basically user b made a change to the same table that user a has
open
> > but user a might not have the record that user b changed even on
his
> > screen so I don't need to even bother to do an InvalidateBookmark
on
> > that record from user b.
> >
> > The actually implementation get's complicated. Basically I have a
> > variation of the IB_SyncCursor that is available in IBO but I've
> > written my own to work exactly the way I need. Right now I'm
doing
> > an InvalidateBookmark on any record changed by user b even if
that
> > record is not even on user a's screen. I would like to prevent
> > this. A side effect of doing an InvalidateBookmark when it is
not
> > needed is that you loose changes for any records that are
currently
> > in dsEdit mode.
>
> In other words you don't like the fact that Events don't
> give you a record number ;)
>
> The code sample I gave comes from a system that does the
> sort of thing you are looking for, but it is supported by my
> own messaging system. When a record is updated, a broadcast
> message is sent, and all the other clients check to see if
> they are using that record number, and update only if they
> are. Saves a lot of traffic on a 64kBaud network.
>
> So I suppose the question is how do you tell the other users?
>
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