How do I create an Icon View

[viktoras didziulis]

Hi Mark,

if I understood you correctly, you need a field which displays contents 
of a folder (table, database, etc) in a list where icons indicate the 
type of a resource displayed.

Basically you will need to "set the imageSource of char 1 to yourimg" 
for each line in a field describing a resource. If you wish to show it 
in 2 or 3 columns - just insert tabs where appropriate, "set the 
itemdelimiter to tab", and "set the imageSource of char 1 to yourimg"  
for each item...

An example that might serve you as a source of ideas is described (and 
can be downloaded and reused) at
http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/september/issue32/newsletter3.php

Viktoras


mfstuart wrote:
> If I may explain a little more...
> I would like the display to behave like the Icons View. This view is loaded
> dynamically from say the contents of a folder, or selected rows in a SQL
> database, or whatever the criteria. Even links to PDF files. User clicks on
> the icon and the script launches and opens the file.
>
> If I were to load each of the icons (an image) and icon text name
> dynamically onto a form, what kind of container (or object) would I load
> them into? A table object?
> Would the contents be something like...?
> First row:
> Load the table object with an icon then TAB (as the delimiter) then icon,
> etc., with the row height say upto something like 80.
> Alternate row:
> Name of the icon TAB (as delimiter) then icon, etc.
>
> Is this how to approach it?
>
> And would I have to set the property of this table object to HTMLtext, or
> something? Not sure.
>
> Thanx again,
> Mark Stuart
> ============================================================
>
> Björnke von Gierke wrote:
>   
>> You need buttons which have an icon, but no showBorder, threeD and no  
>> hiliteBorder. Look them up in the docu, as well as the icons & border  
>> part of the inspector.
>>
>> On 14 Nov 2007, at 21:46, mfstuart wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On Mac and Win platforms, the Explorer and Finder have an Icon View.
>>> Where each icon (and icon name) appear in a grid type of layout?
>>>
>>> How would I create this type of layout with RunRev?
>>>
>>> Thanx,
>>> Mark Stuart
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