Option Button in a Datagrid

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Glen,
Are you on Windows?  IF so, I ran into this a few months back.  I filed bug
report# 9993 about it and got the following reply from the QCC:

"Having had a look at your project, I think I've spotted the issue. It
appears to be that the dataGrid property dgProp["hilited text color"] is
setting the foreground color of your dropDown menu to white, causing
unhighlighted options to blend into the background.

Either set the property to a different color or edit the "setprop
dgHilite" handler in the columns behavior."


Here's what I did to fix it.  Check the Datagrid manual for how to set
up a column behavior script for your option menu columns.  When you've
done that, find the "setprop dgHilite" handler and change it so only
the "set the foregroundcolor of me to empty" line is in there, in
other words get rid of the if statement.

That fixed it for me, hope it works for you.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Glen Bojsza <gbojsza at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> As I mentioned, adding the option button and it working is fine. It's the
> hilite that causes the problem on not being able to read the text in the
> option button.
>
> Someone must have found this before?
>
> As a work around I could disable the auto hilite for the datagrid and add a
> selection column but this should not be the way to do things.
>
> Glen
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Glen,
> >
> > You can add a locked field to a datagrid and show a popup button when the
> > user clicks on that field. I presume the popup button needs to contain a
> > script that puts the chosen value into the field. Because the popup
> button
> > doesn't need to be part of the datagrid, I expect no problems with
> hilites
> > etc.
> >
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> >
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> >
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> > On 25 okt 2012, at 16:07, Glen Bojsza wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to add an option button to a column in a datagrid... this is
> not a
> > > problem except when a user tries to use it.
> > >
> > > The choices are are there and the drop down works but you can read the
> > text
> > > in the drop down.
> > >
> > > If you turn off auto hilite for the datagrid then everything with the
> > > option button is fine but then you can't allow the user to visually
> > select
> > > a line.
> > >
> > > Is there another way of having the text in the option button to show as
> > > normal and allow for auto hilite of the line in a datagrid?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> >
> >
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