World: r3wp

when I save the form contents, I just go through the pane and grab 
all the values for the widgets I have viz: radio-groups, and edit-lists.

And to restore the form contents, in the do block of the layout, 
I go thru the layout and restore the values.

Only trouble is .. it's not working for me.

How to reference the layout from within a do block ?

I can't use the reference returned by 'display because the display 
hasn't finished yet.

IIRC you have it in 'face in the do-block

Let me try ..

display "Example" compose [
    button "a" [alert "hi"] field "a" return 
    button "b" field "b" return 
    do [
        foreach fac face/pane[
 probe fac/text
]
    ]
]

Nope .. not working.

let me try a smaller example ..

mine works here. has rebgui change?

keeps changing all the time!

Hmm.

Has rebgui changed in that regard? :)

Smaller example works here too.

must be doing something else bad ..

confidential code?

display "Test" [
	group-box "Box1" data [
		field 100 return
		field 100 return 
	]
	do [	
		foreach f face/pane [
			if f/type = 'group-box [
				foreach t f/pane [
					t/text: copy "hello"
				]
			]
		]
	]
] do-events

works fine

not confidential code .. just very long!

maybe i can dig to the important points.

i am sometimes good at probing.

hang on ....

maybe i find the bug.

fixed :)

Grats :)

helps to talk about these things :)

very true:)

Graham, good tip: Don't save/restore anonymous widgets. If (whyever) 
the order of faces change you are lost. I always use named widgets, 
even it's more to code. But I can move the stuff around without any 
problems. And my widgets have the same name as the database-columns.

can't do ... users are allowed to create the forms

But they could be forced to name the fields?

but they could overwrite globals

they might name a field rebol: field 100

i would take roberts suggestion but use my own naming. eg have a 
/my-name in your fields and compare with that.

Graham, simple fix: Just prefix each field name internally with graham_<field-name-by-user> 
and you are save.

this is an example form http://www.compkarori.com/emr/images/cvs.png

I use the form to create text .. so it is not being saved to any 
database ...

it is being used to create english sentences

I guess I would use named fields though if I had to save and restore 
to database fields

So its stored only short-term and long-term-compatibility is no issue?

yes

mostly for forms I store the form data as a block in the database

because you might have a hundred different forms

and I don't want to save the form definition with the data

Why do you need to populate the form? crash-backups? defaults?

just to view the data

easier to see the data in the form sometimes

but you dont store the data, only as text?

as datatypes

but for the example form .. as text