Simple Datagrid task?

[William Prothero]

Thanks for your help. I hate to ask such newby questions, but I’m really busy, and what I needed to do seemed so basic.

Best,
Bill

William Prothero
https://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Apr 27, 2021, at 6:51 AM, Martin Koob <mkoob at rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I wanted to give you more of an explanation of how to get enter text in field to work. Just refreshing my own memory I had to go back to my project.  
> 
> So as Håkan said you have to first allow editing.   
> 
> Then you can’t just enter text into a cell and have it deal with it.  You have to use a Datagrid command EditTextField
> 
> Here is the handler I use in my project which I adapted from the DG7 form of the DGForms.zip file that you can download here:
> https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20130
> 
> 
> --------------------
> on mouseDoubleUp pMouseBtnNum
> 
> local theKey
> 
> 
> -- Example of how to edit the contents of a field.
> 
> -- By passing the index of the record associated with copy of this template being displayed and
> 
> -- a key (array key) the data grid will automatically save the changes the user
> 
> -- makes and refresh the UI by calling FillInData and resizeControl.
> 
> if pMouseBtnNum is 1 then
> 
>     if the dgProps["allow editing"] of the dgControl of me then
> 
>          put the short name of the target into sEditedField
> 
>          switch sEditedField
> 
>               case "RaterComments"
> 
>                   put "CriteriaComments" into theKey
> 
>                   EditFieldText the long id of the target, the dgIndex of me, theKey
> 
>                   break
> 
>                case "title"
> 
>                    put "title" into theKey
> 
>                    EditFieldText the long id of the target, the dgIndex of me, theKey
> 
>                    break
> 
>           end switch
> 
>      end if
> 
> end if
> 
> pass mouseDoubleUp
> end mouseDoubleUp
> 
> 
> ——————
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Martin Koob
> 
> 
>> On Apr 27, 2021, at 8:20 AM, hakan--- via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On the second tab in the preferences pane there is a checkbox that says ”Allow text editing”. If you have that selected you can edit the text by double-clicking a cell.
>> 
>> Or do you need something else?
>> 
>> :-Håkan
>> 
>>>> On 26 Apr 2021, at 21:03, William Prothero via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Folks:
>>> I’m wanting to use a datagrid to store data that I enter by hand.
>>> 
>>> Seems this oughta be quite simple, but ….. messing with the docs is frustrating.
>>> 
>>> I want to be able to click on an empty cell in a datagrid, have it open, and enter a number or text. Then I want to store the values to a file. I have no problem with using dgArray to get the data and store it, but the simple act of opening a cell so I can enter a number eludes me.
>>> 
>>> I’m sure there must be tutorials, but I guess I’m impatient to sort through them. When I started looking around, I see there’s a problem trying to enter data into an empty cell. I need to do this. The cells with data open and let me enter values when I double click, but ……. empty ones?
>>> 
>>> Could somebody point me to a tutorial that lets me do this simple task with a datagrid?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill
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