Solutionmodel clone ignores elements

Classic Servoy
1

I do this without problem in other forms, am I missing something here:

	var lobaseform = solutionModel.getForm("c6reportflex1")
	var loform = solutionModel.cloneForm("c6reportflex2", lobaseform);
	var lobtn_canc = loform.getButton("btn_cancel");
	var lobtn_ok = loform.getButton("btn_ok");

The form c6reportflex1 has buttons on it with those names. I want to change the position of the the buttons on the cloned form, but lobtn_canc and lobtn_ok are both null. What’s wrong?

2

Hi Michael,

Do you use perhaps inheritance on this form ? I.e. are the buttons on the parent form and you try to access them on the child form ?
If so you can’t access those object (but you can in 6.0).

3

Thanks, but no, the form being cloned isn’t extending another, and isn’t a clone itself. When I display the new clone form, the buttons appear in the UI. But when I try to access them in code, they aren’t there. I noticed the same thing for form variables that were present in the original form, but not accessible via the soultionmodel. BTW - this is ver. 5.2.6

M.S.

4

OK - the reason is because the button is returned in solutionmodel as a label, I’m thinking possibly because showclick and showfocus are both false.

5

Yes, when showClick is false then it’s essentially a label (and what turns a label into a button when enabled).