Subject Re: [IBO] TIB_UpdateBar
Author Helen Borrie
At 01:00 AM 16/05/2007, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm new to IBO and I have many questions about the use of its components.
>
>But there is one related to the TIB_UpdateBar that is more important now:
>
>I have a Form that register users of the System. The user has to
>inform, among other things, the password twice (two TIB_Edits). The
>problem is that BEFORE the post I have to check some inconsistences,
>for example, password with the same characters, sequences 12345, or
>54321, or abcde, or ABCDE, length less than 5 characters, or wrong
>confirmation.
>
>Wich event could I use to perform these checks and abort the post
>until correction, without lose data previously informed ?
>
>I tryed TIB_Query.BeforePost, TIB_UpdateBar.BeforeAction and some
>combinations between them. Normally, I lose the previous information
>and a new empty record was shown.

Use the TIB_Query.BeforePost event to test the value[s] concerned
and, on the first validation failure, call SysUtils.Abort to
terminate the Post without losing the values in the buffer.

It would help a lot if you would show us the BeforePost code that failed.

Helen