Table Field Docs?

[Peter Reid]

Hi Frank

Thanks for the response.  Unfortunately your recommendations only 
work for ordinary fields not table ones.  The problem is that when 
you start editing into cells, the field text property is clearly NOT 
being used to hold the edited cells.  From other messages on the list 
it seems that hidden data structures are used for this.

This is why I'm after some documentation - how to I get at the hidden 
data structure to read/write/empty under script control?

>put tableContent into field "Table Field"     -- put data into complete table
>put field "Table Field" into tableContent     -- get complete table data
>
>>- clear a table
>
>put empty into field "Table Field"
>
>>- address individual cells for reading/writing
>
>set the itemDelimiter to tab                                   -- 
>the lines in a table field have the columns separated by tabs
>
>put 6 into item 5 of line 7 of field "Table Field"   -- row 7, column 5
>put item 3 of line 2 of field "Table Field" into mycell   -- row 2, column 3
>
>>- fix the number of columns when tabbing across
>
>not sure what you mean by this one?
>
>>- have table column headings that scroll as the data table scrolls
>
>Hmm, you could put the headings in another table immediately above 
>the one they belong to, set the tabStops the same, eliminate the 
>scrollbars, make it non-editable, and put a bit of code in the main 
>field ("Table Field") to keep the horizontal scrolling in sync.  I 
>did something like this with an experimental stack I had started at 
>one point.
>
>Then you could format the other table field however you want.

Yep, I've done this use-another-table-for-the-headings trick but it's 
clunky and I hoped that a "spreadsheet like" object might actually 
support proper column headings?!

Cheers

Peter
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