Poplist and muti-record block navigation

Hi. I have a form with a multi-record block and a poplist on
each record. When a certain item is TRUE on a record, I want the
poplist button to be disabled and enabled when the item is
FALSE. The button is normally enabled and I disable it when
needed in the WHEN-NEW-RECORD-INSTANCE trigger. This normally
works fine except in one likely common scenario: The user
navigates from a record with the poplist button enabled directly
into the poplist button of a record for which the poplist should
be disabled. By clicking directly into the poplist without
clicking on any of the record's regular fields, the WHEN-NEW-
RECORD-INSTANCE trigger hasn't had a chance to fire so they are
allowed in.
How can I ensure a user cannot navigate to a poplist without the
system recorgnizing the record change?
Thanks for any advice.

What I would advise is that you create another item in the block
which mirrors the poplist.
Make this item a text item.
Change the attributes of the poplist to have a Records Displayed
of 1.
What you need to do then is only display the poplist on the
current record. Do this by dynamically repositioning the poplist
on a When-New-Item-Instance trigger.
The information in :system.trigger_record and get_block_property
(<>, TOP_RECORD) will provide enough information to work out the
Y coords of the poplist for each record.
Then at runtime when the user clicks, they will be clicking on
the Text item rather than the Poplist. You can then navigate to
the row and display the poplist in the correct position enabling
or disabling it in the process.

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