AW: Polygrid sorting (problems)

[Mike Kerner]

which version is that? 21?

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 7:21 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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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