ListMagic calculated columns
Josep
jmyepes at mac.com
Sat Feb 7 03:57:17 EST 2009
Hi,
:) Thanks. It's enought to begin so the idea of use is for invoicing little
documents, no long lists.
I will try to follow your code...
I think that some formula capability for the next version will be great, not
to act as a spreadsheet but yes to do some automated formulas.
Cheers,
Josep M
Jim Bufalini-3 wrote:
>
> Hi Josep,
>
> First let me say that Eric designed version 1.1 of ListMagic to make it
> easy
> to display a list of tab delimited data with headers and a lot of other
> functionalities, but not to act as a spreadsheet or report generator like
> you have for database with calculations and breaks and bands, etc. This is
> obvious from the total lack of handlers to set a value into a line or
> item.
> We should probably consider this for version 1.2.
>
> That said, and while not totally satisfactory, you could do something like
> the following:
>
> Using your example, let say you had a stack called Pricing, an LM widget
> called LMPricingList and a tab delimited text file called Pricing.txt that
> was in the same folder as your stack that looked like:
>
> Code Description Units Price Total
> J001 ItemA 2 12 24
> J002 ItemB 4 24 96
> J003 ItemC 3 18 54
>
>
> First, when you set up ListMagic you should uncheck column drag and drop,
> because you don't want the user dragging the total between the Units and
> Price and set to Select one line only.
>
> In your preOpenCard or openCard you could put something along the lines
> of:
>
> ON preOpenCard
> local tDataTxtFile
> -----
> set itemdelimiter to slash -- Or backslash
> -- Set below to the actual location of your data file
> put item 1 to -2 of the filename of stack "Pricing" & slash &
> "Pricing.txt" into tDataTxtFile
> LMPopulate url ("file:" & tDataTxtFile) -- Loads the data. If multiple
> LMs must specify LM name.
> END preOpenCard
>
> Then you could modify the LMListEdited Command along the lines of:
>
> ON LMListEdited pWidget,pItem,pLineNo,pOldValue,pNewValue
> local tCurList, tNewTotal
> -----
> set itemdelimiter to tab
> put LMExtractList(true) into tCurList -- get the entire list including
> hidden columns.
> SWITCH
> CASE pItem = 3
> put pNewValue * item 4 of line pLineNo of tCurlist into tNewTotal
> break
> CASE pItem = 4
> put pNewValue * item 3 of line pLineNo of tCurlist into tNewTotal
> break
> DEFAULT
> -- Change here or add CASE statements to allow changes to other values
> -- This disallows changing any column except 3 or 4.
> put pOldValue into item pItem of line pLineNo of tCurList
> END switch
> If tNewTotal <> empty then put tNewTotal into item 5 of line pLineNo of
> tCurList
> LMPopulate tCurList -- again must specify name if there is more than
> one.
> send "SetLastClickedLineNo" to "LMPriceList" -- use name of your
> LMWidget
> END LMListEdited
>
> This works, but as I said is not totally satisfactory because if you have
> a
> long list, re-populating the entire list on each edit is time consuming. I
> would disable the check boxes column, if you are going to have long lists.
> The above code is not robust, as it does not have error checking, as in
> the
> case of a user entering non-numeric characters, etc. but just to give you
> an
> idea of how to start.
>
> Don't forget to save to the text file at some point either manually with a
> button or on closing the card.
>
> I know Eric added the editing feature at the end and just didn't live long
> enough to think that, by adding this, people might want to change lines,
> columns or items based on an edit. We will look at adding this into
> version
> 1.2. Also, with the addition of the drag and drop feature, should probably
> be able to address columns by column name as well as position.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jim
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
>> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Josep
>> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:53 AM
>> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: RE: ListMagic calculated columns
>>
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> I need something like this example:
>>
>> Code Description Units Price Total
>> J001 Item A 2 12 24(*)
>>
>> (*) Column Total will be calculated by col "Units" * "Price", and if
>> the
>> user edit the values of Units or Price the column Total will be
>> calculated.
>> Other thing is that control the column that the user are editing..
>>
>> Reading the scripts I found:
>>
>> on LMListEdited pWidget,pItem,pLineNo,pOldValue,pNewValue
>> DisplayPrompt "LMListEdited - item" && pItem && "of line" && pLineNo
>> &&
>> "-" && pOldValue && ">" && pNewValue
>> -- sent when an item has been edited and changed in the list
>> -- pWidget is the long ID of the widget
>> -- pItem is the item number
>> -- pLineNo is the line number
>> -- pOldValue is previous value
>> -- pNewValue is new vlaue
>> -- write your code here:
>>
>> end LMListEdited
>>
>> Any that I put inside of this script, thinking that this is correct
>> handler
>> not work.
>> If I use "rawkeyup" message I can intercept the key pressed but nothing
>> more... sorry but I'm stoped here.
>>
>>
>> Hi Josep,
>>
>> I assume you are saying you have handlers you have added into the card
>> script that are not working?
>>
>> Can you show a sample of the code that is not working?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jim Bufalini
>>
>>
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