Windows event order
When moving INTO an item, events with a wider scope will occur first. For instance, when you enter the first field of a new record, the Enter Record event occurs before the Enter Field event.
When moving OUT OF an item, events with a smaller scope will occur first. For instance, when you change a field value and then move to the next record, the following events happen in this order:
- Change Value
- Change Field
- Leave Field
- Insert Record or Update Record Opening a window
When the user opens a new application and a window in it, generally the following events occur:
- Open Application
- Enter Record
- Open Window
- Enter Field New record
When the user enters the first field value in a new record, generally the following events occur:
- Create Record
- Post-create (Field property, for all fields in record)
- Change Value
- On Change (Field property, for each character entered) Field-to-field
As the user moves from field to field within a record, generally the following events occur:
- Enter Field
- Change Value
- Change Field
- Leave Field
What happens at Change Field time depends on HOW the field is changed. Please refer to the description of Data Events for details.
Record-to-record
As the user moves from one record to another, generally the following events occur:
- Insert Record (referring to the previous record)
- Enter Record (referring to the new record) Commit
The user issues the Save/Commit command, generally the following events occur:
- Commit Transaction