Datagrid dgData bug

[Brian Milby]

There is a PR to fix this so that chaining doesn't break things.  I've
posted a demo of how to fix it in your current version:
https://github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/tree/master/NestedDGBehavior


On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:19 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard, thanks for that. As it is however, creating custom behaviors
> for subsets of grids is exactly what I need, so I can work around it well
> enough. It's a comfort to know that there can be resolution problems the
> way I am doing it, so that I don't stay awake at night going over and over
> it thinking it's something I have done.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Sep 12, 2018, at 09:15 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Bob Sneidar wrote:
> >
> > > Hmmm... oddly this does not happen in a basic test stack. I am
> > > executing the commands in a behavior though, and that behavior
> > > is inline with the datagrid behavior. If that is the culprit,
> > > it's gonna be a beatch fixing it.
> >
> > One of the things I learned from last month's discussion on chaining
> behaviors with DataGrids is that a DG does not directly use the button
> object assigned as its behavior; the actual script driving it is the
> behavior of that assigned button.
> >
> > IIRC the implications seem to be that if you do this:
> >
> > DataGrid -> CustomBehavior -> DGBehaviorButton -> DGBehaviorScript
> >
> > ...then references the actual DGBehaviorScript is making do not resolve
> properly, and errors occur.
> >
> > However, what works is assigning your behavior not to the DG directly,
> but to the button it uses, setting your script's behavior to the
> DGBehaviorScript:
> >
> > DataGrid  -> DGBehaviorButton -> CustomBehavior -> DGBehaviorScript
> >
> > The downside to having to do this is that it prevents us from having
> behaviors assigned to a specific subset of DataGrids.
> >
> > At least that's as much as I recall.  And after skimming so many
> messages it's likely I've missed something, so anyone with a more complete
> understanding please chime in.
> >
> > --
> > Richard Gaskin
>
>
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