head spinning over datagrids

[Bob Sneidar]

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Down at the bottom, everything most people want to know about datagrids with lessons, examples and an API. I have a whole bookmark folder on Livecode and LC related stuff, in a book mark bar in my browser. That way I have one place to go for reference material. 

Bob


On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> And then gmail ate my message, with no saved version???
> 
> Anyway, let's see if I can remember all of this.
> 
> It seems that the file "LiveCode_Data_Grd.pdf" is what passes for
> documentation for datagrids?  Or is there some other manual out there
> that actually documents it?
> 
> This seems to be a situation of shooting flies with cannon.  I need to
> have the user able to enter rows with two to four elements, with
> usually zero to a few rows, but sometimes a great many.  Always pure
> text, but might be multiple lines.
> 
> So since I need to work with rows, I need a "Form" template rather
> than the "table" type? (In spite of this being what we'd call a
> "table" in English?)
> 
> loading/saving from a 2d array is not a problem.  It then seems that I
> should set the dgData to this array?
> 
> So i drag a dg onto my card, then click on the row behavior & template
> behavior to get stuff copied over, and start editing those?
> 
> And then add buttons to the template for things like delete row?
> 
> And since three are something like 50 different ones of these that I
> want to edit with the same editor, I can name the fields I add to the
> template A, B, C, and D, and set the widths & position of these in the
> template from a script?
> 
> Am I getting anything out of this as opposed to a basic table other
> than being able to have a delete button, not have to trap for return
> to not jump down a row, and getting alternating grey rows?
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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