Simplest method for determining "changes made" on a form/card

[Bob Sneidar]

Also remember that closeField does not get sent to a field if the user clicks on a button before exiting the edited field, at least on the Mac OS. 

Bob


On Jan 3, 2012, at 2:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 1/3/12 3:51 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:
>> Without scripting every field, if you have a data entry system with
>> multiple fields, and you want to flag the user that he or she made a
>> change but did not save before click "next" or "Previous" to go to
>> another record... what would be the simplest method to check that the
>> card was modified to then prompt the user "Do you want to save your
>> changes?"
> 
> In the card script (or stack script, depending on how the stack is laid out), trap the "closefield" message, which is only sent when field content changes. Set a script local or global variable to true. Then on closecard, check the variable and ask to save if it's true. Then set the variable back to false.
> 
> The only catch here is that if any of your fields have closeField handlers, they'd need to pass the message so that the card could catch it.
> 
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