Newbie Data Grid question

Jim Ault jimaultwins at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 15 21:52:52 EST 2009


One valuable technique for understanding the DataGrid inner workings.

In Rev, choose the pointer tool, click on a data grid, then go the  
inspector, choose 'custom properties' from the drop down,

and now check out the property sets.  You should see dgProps and dgCache
Note all the properties that have been created when the data grid was  
created.
Of course you can edit the values here, but you can also change them  
in script lines.

One bit of confusion for me is that there is no dgText property set  
visible here.  The syntax

set the dgText [ true ] of group "DataGrid"  to tHeaders

would logically mean that there would be a custom property set "dgText"

Interesting if you click on dgProps "row template" you will see:
group id 1011 of card id 1010 of stack "Data Grid Templates  
1260751174078"

...at least in my version of Rev 3.5

Hope this helps in your travels.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas



On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Andre.Bisseret wrote:

> Bonjour Jim, Trevor and others on this thread ;-)
>
> Le 14 déc. 09 à 19:11, James Hurley a écrit :
> ...
>>
>> Trevor (and Andre.Bisseret),
>>
>> Thanks you for the very thoughtful reply(s).
>>
>> It is heartening to see something defended by its parent. My  
>> sincere apologies for treating your offspring in such a quick and  
>> dirty fashion :-)
>> I'm sure I will appreciate the richness  of this new Run Rev object  
>> in time--see below.
>>
>> FIrst to satisfy my quick and dirty needs, I find that the  
>> following works well to get data displayed in a data grid field:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>  put field "data" into tData --Tab delimited text
>>  --The first line of tData contains the column names
>>  put line 1 of tData into tHeaders
>>  replace tab with cr in tHeaders
>>  set dgProp["Columns"] of group "DataGrid"  to tHeaders --Thanks to  
>> Andre for this line.
>>  set the dgText [ true ] of group "DataGrid" to tData
>> end mouseUp
>>
> Your handler above, confirmed by Trevoir, helped me a lot to  
> understand the possible uses of pFirstLineContainsHeaders.
> In order to learn more about data grid, I tried several variations,  
> I put below in case it could interest someone :
>
> local tData,tHeaders,
> -- field "data" = lines of tab delimited text -- a Data Grid  
> "DataGrid" with 3 columns
> ------------
>
> -- 1 ) IF THE LINE OF HEADERS IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE DATA (AS I AM  
> ACCUSTOMED TO)
> -- 1.1) WITHOUT USING pFirstLineContainsHeaders; WORKS:
> on mouseUp
>   put "header1" & cr & "header2" & cr & "header3" into tHeaders
>   set the dgProp["columns"] of grp "DataGrid" to tHeaders
>   put fld "data" into tData
>   set the dgText of group "DataGrid" to tData
> end mouseUp
>
> -- 1.2) USING pFirstLineContainsHeaders: USELESS BUT WORKS :-)))
>   on mouseUp
>   put "header1" & cr & "header2" & cr & "header3" into tHeaders
>   set the dgProp["columns"] of grp "DataGrid" to tHeaders
>   put fld "data" into tData
>   set the dgText[false] of group "DataGrid" to tData
> end mouseUp
>
> -- 2) IF,  FOR SOME REASON, THE LINE OF HEADERS IS INCLUDED IN THE  
> DATA (FIRST LINE)
> -- 2.1) WITHOUT USING pFirstLineContainsHeaders: WORKS:
> on mouseUp
>   put field "data" into tData
>   put line 1 of tData into tHeaders
>   replace tab with cr in tHeaders
>   set dgProp["Columns"] of group "DataGrid"  to tHeaders
>   delete line 1 of tData
>   set the dgText of group "DataGrid" to tData
> end mouseUp
>
> -- 2.2) USING  pFirstLineContainsHeaders: WORKS:
> on mouseUp -- the handler from Jim
>   put field "data" into tData
>   put line 1 of tData into tHeaders
>   replace tab with cr in tHeaders
>   set dgProp["Columns"] of group "DataGrid"  to tHeaders --Thanks to  
> Andre for this line.
>   set the dgText [ true ] of group "DataGrid" to tData
> end mouseUp
> -------------------------------------------------
> --   indeed, in all these handlers, it's possible to directly set  
> the dgText of grp "datagrid" to fld "data" (but less fast, I guess,  
> specially if it contains a lot of lines)
> --------------------------------------------------
> AS FOR THE SYNTAX OF pFirstLineContainsHeaders
> OK: set the dgText[true]
> nevertheless:
> put true into pFirstLineContainsHeaders
> set the dgText[pFirstLineContainsHeaders] of grp "datagrid" to true
> works as well, but useless, OK :-)
>
> set the pFirstLineContainsHeaders of grp "datagrid" to true does not  
> work as that is creating a custom prop; OK :-))
>
> I am a bit slow-witted but I am beginning to understand quite what  
> this pFirstLineContainsHeaders can do ;-o)))))
>
> Thanks to both of you,
>
> André






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