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


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