How to get a same data grid on each card?

[zryip theSlug]

Hi André,

Why not using a template instead of a copy paste?

Happy new year to you too ;)

-Zryip the Slug- wish you the best! 8)


2010/1/3 Andre.Bisseret <Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr>:
> Bonjour Trevor (and all)
>
> I have an old app I built in HC, then I converted in Rev. and that I am
> using quite a lot.
> Now, I am transforming it in a true Rev app ;-))
>
> On each card on a stack I have a background including, among other objects,
> a table whose columns are made with grouped scrolling fields (an old
> solution ;-)
>
> I would like to replace this with a data grid.
>
> My first attempt was to put a data grid in the background, expecting I could
> populate it with specific data on each card.
>
> But seems this is not possible. When doing "new card", I get a data grid on
> the new card,
> - without the columns headers, which is not a big issue,
> - but when I populate the data grid on the new card the data grid on the
> previous one is emptied
>
> So I understand that in fact,  the data grid which is replicated on each
> card can be populated only on the current card.
>
> In other word including a data grid in a group with background behavior set
> to true seems not a good idea. I found an answer from Trevor in the archives
> that seems to confirm that.
> -------------
> "If you want to have different data on each card (I assume you are sharing
> the data grid across cards) then you would need to:
> a) Load the data into the data grid on open card each time a card opens.
> b) Create separate data grids for each card."
> -------------
> In my case, I can't do a), I have to do b)
>
> Then, I red the lesson which explains how to create a data grid through
> script.
>
> But I am trying to avoid re-defining for each new card, the properties of
> the data grid (columns, their names and labels, their width etc.
>
> So my later trial is as follow :
>
> I create a data grid "dataGrid" (with all needed properties defined) on the
> first card of the stack.
> I don"t include it in the background of this first card
>
> Then, when I create a new card I do :
>
>  copy grp "DataGrid" of cd 1 of this stack
>   paste
>   set the dgText of grp "DataGrid" to empty
>
> So I get a data grid (with the same name) on each new card ready to be
> specifically populated for this card.
>
> Seems to work well :-)
>
> Trevor, is this a good way to go or are there some warning against it?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for any advice
>
> Heureuse année 2010
> André