Datagrid dgData bug

[Bob Sneidar]

Sweet! Thanks Brian!

Bob S


> On Sep 12, 2018, at 09:52 , Brian Milby via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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