DataGrid

[Beat Cornaz]

  What a wonderful job, Trevor. It is truly amazing.

Just 2 days ago a was pointed to the DataGrid. It helped me solve a  
problem I was struggling with for quite a while.

Since I have bee playing with it andI worked through 2 months worth  
of list emails to dig out the questions on the Datagrids and was  
flabbergasted by the amount of time and energy Trevor put in  
answering all the questions. Now that's what I call support. Really  
awesome. I will use the Datagrid a lot. It's great to be able to  
learn more and more about the Datagrids. I just could delete one of  
my questions, because I suddenly knew the answer.

I have studied the manual and the list, so I hope my questions have  
not been asked before :

1. Is it possible to print the content (including headers) of a  
Datagrid like printing a field. I mean so that the layout of the  
Datagrid is kept. This would be absolutely great.
Of course I could 'Print card', but the quality is much less than  
printing text from a field. I am afraid it won't yet be possible, as  
it is not mentioned in the manual or  on the list.

2. How do I set the number of columns by script?

3. Is it possible to drag a complete  line in a DataGrid to a new  
position (custom hand sorting)?

4. How can I lock one column for editing, leaving the others free to  
be edited? dgProps["allow editing"] seems to be a global prop.

5. Is it possible for a piece of text to overflow into the next cell  
if that cell is empty. If so, how do I do that?

6. How do I 'open up' a cell by script for the user to immediately  
type into it.

I noticed that the Datagrid group stays 'grouped', also if I choose  
the inverse of 'select grouped'. While ordinary groups yield their  
parts, not so the Datagrid.
I am wondering if the only reason is, that the user will not mess up  
the coordinates of the parts of the group, or is there another deeper  
reason behind?


Trevor, I hope you have still some energy left to answer my many  
questions.


much thanks for this great piece of work,

Beat