AW: Polygrid sorting (problems)

[Paul Dupuis]

All,

Bug 23886 has been fixed with the latest release of the Summer Bundle 
widget sets. Download from the store.

On 8/17/2022 3:51 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
> BTW the problem of:
> the text of widget X
> the csvData of widget X
> the tsvData of widget X
> AND (not in the Livecode 9.6.8 Dictionary for PolyGrid 1.1.1)
> the pgText of widget X
> ALL not returning the full data for a PolyGrid widget is a confirmed bug:
>
> See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23886
>
>
>
> On 8/15/2022 3:34 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>> So there is an example of sorting in the PolyGrid documentation under 
>> the entry for the MESSAGE "headerClick" and under the entry to the 
>> PROPERTY "text" (and in 'the text of me')
>>
>> The example code only sort the visible rows as "the text of widget X" 
>> returns the data of PolyGrid X as tab delimited, WITHOUT the column 
>> headers, but ONLY the visible rows.
>>
>> So, what to use for sorting all the data in a PolyGrid by a 
>> particular column?
>>
>> The tsvData of widget X (and csvData, and Text) doesn't seem to work. 
>> The all seems to only get the visible data (rows). Only the pgData of 
>> widget return the whole dataset of the PolyGrid. Is this the way 
>> these properties are supposed to work?
>>
>> If that is how text, csvData, and tsvData are supposed to work 
>> (returning only the visible rows), then the sort example in the 
>> PolyGrid documentation require updating otherwise these properties 
>> require updating!
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/15/2022 2:29 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
>>> So, I bought the Summer Bundle. Yes, it is a good deal.
>>>
>>> In my case it was primarily for the Polygrid widget. Our application 
>>> uses a Datagrid to display customer research data. The columns 
>>> headers are text and the left most column ROWs are test and all 
>>> other cells are numbers. Some customers can have quite large data 
>>> sets and I have been running into the number of columns (ad a 
>>> default width of 100px per column) exceeding a GROUPs 32,767px width 
>>> maximum (about 327-328 columns). At this point the Datagrid just 
>>> fails - no data is displayed.
>>>
>>> I can now attest that a Polygrid (under LC 9.6.8) does not have this 
>>> limit. I have a "test" stack (for Datagrid testing) I converted to 
>>> the Polygrid and can easily generate 1000 columns x 1000 rows of 
>>> data and it works.
>>>
>>> So I guess the answer to bug 
>>> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23875 is "Use the 
>>> PolyGrid"
>>>
>>> On that note, the Datagrid has 2 features I use in this specific 
>>> case, user column resizing (built into the Polygrid - Yea!) and 
>>> column sorting (NOT built into the Polygrid - Boo!). So, does anyone 
>>> have some column sort code for the Polygrid they have written that 
>>> they might be willing to share?
>>>
>>> Also, I have filled a Polygrid enhancement request to allow the left 
>>> column (or the left N columns) to be locked/frozen, so they remain 
>>> visible when the Polygrid is scrolled horizontally. See 
>>> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23880. If you might 
>>> benefit from this enhancement, please follow the bug or add a 
>>> comment to that effect.
>>>
>>>
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