topic OnValidate event fires twice in ArcPad Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/onvalidate-event-fires-twice/m-p/708946#M5175 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello, I have noticed that if you have an "OnValidate" event for a control, this event is fired twice when you click OK in the form.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have attached a little applet to illustrate.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Unzip the applet and place it in your applets directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Fire up ArcPad</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click the "Bex" toolbar</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click the "Bex" tool</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click ok in the form</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You will get two messageboxes popping up each triggered by the onvalidate event for the textbox in the form.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If there are several (lots of) controls on the form and these contain lots of code, the amount of time spent validating can become significant.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions for a way to reduce this overhead?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Rolf</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:18 GMT RolfBroch 2012-04-26T13:00:18Z OnValidate event fires twice https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/onvalidate-event-fires-twice/m-p/708946#M5175 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello, I have noticed that if you have an "OnValidate" event for a control, this event is fired twice when you click OK in the form.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have attached a little applet to illustrate.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Unzip the applet and place it in your applets directory</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Fire up ArcPad</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click the "Bex" toolbar</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click the "Bex" tool</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Click ok in the form</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You will get two messageboxes popping up each triggered by the onvalidate event for the textbox in the form.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If there are several (lots of) controls on the form and these contain lots of code, the amount of time spent validating can become significant.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any suggestions for a way to reduce this overhead?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Rolf</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/onvalidate-event-fires-twice/m-p/708946#M5175 RolfBroch 2012-04-26T13:00:18Z