select all rows in DG table via script?

[Bob Sneidar]

It's about this time I begin to ask myself, "Am I going about this the right way?" For my part, just having a user click on a record and hilite it doesn't seem like it's enough. I have an edit mode and a browse mode, and in browse mode a user can still select a row in a datagrid, even though it doesn't mean anything in that mode. I could disable the datagrid in browse mode, but that seems visually wrong too. 

What I did to solve this is I made a group of checkboxes the exact number of rows of my datagrid, and then wrote scripts to check and uncheck them based on a hidden column in the datagrid data. The checkboxes are not a part of the datagrid, although interacting with them does set the value of the hidden checked column in the associated row of the datagrid data.  I hide this in browse mode and show it in edit mode. 

I can send you the scripts I use to control them if you like.

Bob


On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

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> From: "Peter Haworth" <lcsqlpete at gmail.com>
> Date: Apr 17, 2012 9:34 AM
> Subject: Re: select all rows in DG table via script?
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> There has to be a better way but you could set the dghilitedlines to a
> comma separated list of every line number from 1 to the dgnumberofrecords.
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