On Friday 13 June 2008 12:58:56 am Uwe Grauer wrote: > > > > Not only FK's but PK's too. > > > > The classic: > > > > You have a customer screen and need to retrieve the info. Or lookup a > > invoice number to retrieve the detail lines. > > > > In my case I have a class that uses a table containing meta data. The > > table has the name of the required table, the associated field name, > > etc.. Then the class determines the size of the grid for the display. > > > > But if you think about it almost every app needs a why to do a lookup . > > I don't think that your method of using a "metadata table" is generic > enough to develop a lookup control for Dabo which is of enough help for > other people. Your "metadata table" is too application specific for > your use case. A special use case doesn't fit into a generic framework. > > Uwe
No I don't want my solution to be the Dabo one. I'm saying can we develope one that would work enough to at least retrieve a customer number or something. I.e. Dabo offers a login screen that is very flexible - allowing different auth - tools. -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
