using tables

[Jon]

Eric:

Your stack was a great help.  My gripe was with the underlying 
technology, not with your description!

:)

Jon


Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> I wrote this tutorial stack about table fields because there were  
> many questions on this list about this feature a month ago.
> But I am not really satisfied with it.
> The table feature is not accomplished enough in the current version  
> of Revolution to provide satisfying answers to legitimate questions.
> As you said, it shows how amazing the table facility is :-)
> Nevertheless, I am happy if this stack could help you.
>
> Le 4 juin 05 à 14:32, Jon a écrit :
>
>> I read Eric's stack about how to use tables, which was very helpful.
>>
>> His suggested approach for making a table not scroll (i.e., act as  
>> if it were a fixed group of fields on the screen) shows just how  
>> awkward the table facility is.  Imagine having five tables on a  
>> stack and trying to implement the RawKeyDown handler: you would  have 
>> to clone the code repeatedly for every table on the stack, or  loop 
>> over all fields looking for tables.
>>
>> I'm afraid I can't understand why this obviously helpful feature  was 
>> not built into tables from the start
>
>
> Best regards from Paris,
>
> Eric Chatonet.
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