Re: [libreoffice-users] Displaying data on an unbound field

Hi Egbert,

I suspect that the property name may be case sensitive.

I have similar code that works with "Text". Try using -
    oDiscountFact.Text = format(sDiscountFact, sFormatString2)
and see if that fixes it.

Noel
--
Marion & Noel Lodge
lodgemn@gmail.com

On 12 January 2016 at 12:12, Egbert Eissing <nicari234@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I have a form which holds several fields which are not bound to a database
> table, but are showing data for information purposes only.
>
> Consider the following code snippet.
>
>         oResultSet = oStatement.executeQuery()
>         if not isnull(oResultSet)then
>                 oResultSet.next
>                 sDiscountFact = oResultSet.getString(1)
>                 oDiscountFact = oForm.getByName("discountFact")
>               oDiscountFact.TEXT = format(sDiscountFact, sFormatString2)
>         end if
>
> If the form has just been opened, the last line returns an error:
> "Property or method not found: .TEXT."
> If I now change the formatted field to a text box and back again to a
> formatted field, the problem is solved - until the form is closed and
> opened again.Is this a bug to be fixed soon, or is this a more permanent
> "feature"?
>
> Now I changed the last line with the following:
>         oDiscountFact.setString(sDiscountFact)
> That produces the same error message:
> "Property or method not found: setString."
>
> I have also tried:
>     oDiscountFact.BoundField.updateString(sDiscountFact)
> As expected, this does not work, because the field is not bound to a
> database.
>
> Is there any other alternative to display text on an unbound field, one
> that works correctly all the time? The solution to this problem is really
> important for me.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> Egbert
>
> --
> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
> Problems?
> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
> deleted

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted