On Saturday 03 February 2007 18:40, Paul McNett wrote:
> johnf wrote:
> >> {38714: {'pack1': None, 'pack2': None, 'doc2': None, 'doc1': None,
> >> 'ship2': None, 'ship1': None, 'notes1': None, 'mailnotes': None}}
> >
> > I noticed that all these fields are varchar(8000). I used that as my
> > memo fields since I could not use a text field at the time I designed the
> > table. Your recent change to dTextBox appears to have worked.
>
> Okay, so now update again and try one more time. I applied the same fix
> to dEditBox, which is I presume what you are using to edit the
> varchar(8000) fields.
>
> One thing we don't have is a way for the user to actually enter NULL or
> None in the text fields. Options:
>
> + Define a dApp.NoneEntry property (as opposed to NoneDisplay). If the
> user enters that (say ".None.") it can be interpreted as None.
>
> + Make some other mechanism (context-menu?) for the user to set the
> value to None.
>
> + Others I haven't thought of?
First I wonder why the users would consider anything remotely like a null as a
data entry. So the fact that the user does not have a means to enter a Null
seems OK to me. I would think that leaving the data field empty would be
enough.
BTW you were right about the dEditBox. All again appears to be working.
--
John Fabiani
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