In Dallas Mkt. Ctr. Dev. Co. v. Liedeker, 958 S.W.2d 382, 387 (Tex. 1997), the record reflected that the appellant submitted written requests to the trial judge, the judge said he would sign them later, and through inadvertence the judge never signed them. Id. at 385-86. The supreme court held that the trial court's "statements on the record clearly preserved appellant's complaint." Id. at 387.