Spreadsheet Style Display

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 8:50 AM -0800 3/29/2002, Dennis F. Kahlbaum wrote:
>Does Revolution already have a quick or built-in means to display
>information in a spreadsheet style?  This would include rows, columns,
>headings, vertical and horizontal scroll bars, by-cell editing, etc.

Putting this into Revolution as a native capability is on the requests
list. (In the meantime, though, several people have come up with scripted
solutions for just this purpose. You might take a look at Jacque Landeman
Gay's "Pseudotable", which is at
<http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/pseudtbl.mc.hqx>.)

>(I must admit, I find the Transcript Dictionary search engine
>misleading. For example, type database or array, and nothing appears,
>yet there IS information about both. Does anyone have a tips regarding
>Revolution Documentation?)

If you'll take a look at the tool tip for the Find field, you'll see why.
(I'm adding a little text to the field label to make this clearer.)

You can search the full text of a section by holding down the Option or Alt
key while pressing Return.

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