Calling _Pick location_
Person
objects not only have a FirstName
and a Surname
property, but also an address property pointing to another domain object – an instance of class Location
.
The EditPersonForm
gives the user a GUI to edit particular Person
objects. In this case, we are looking at Arnold Schwarzenegger, probably the only Austrian Person
most people in the world know and who is not dead (like Mozart or Freud):
Labeled with "1" is Arnold's address (or a compact representation thereof); labeled with "2" is the menu item "Pick location". Clicking on "Pick location" will open the Pick location form, essentially a search dialog. It enables the user to search for a particular location and assign it to the Arnold object as new address:
In this illustration, we filter all addresses in the database by country (1), click Search (2) and get a list to pick a Location
from (3).
As soon as we click on a Location
object in the list, we return to the EditPersonForm
and see that the Location
has indeed been assigned to
Arnold's Location
property:
So far so good. If you have read the page FIXME, you will recognize this mechanism as re-call at work: the EditPersonForm
with Arnold "calls" the PickLocation
form, which returns to Arnold, the caller, when the user is done.
In order to make this work, the following is required:
- the
PickLocation
must be derived from theBasePage
page class - the so-called "re-call header" must specify the required return type
and local variable(s) WxeGen.exe
must run to generate the behind-scenes boiler-plate
for a well-behaved re-call page