On Friday 13 June 2008 06:22:50 am Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:20 AM, johnf wrote: > > 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 . > > So you're creating an app for a local company that has 50 customers. > Do you use the same design as you do for a major international > corporation that may have hundreds of thousands of customers? > > Personally, I would never think of creating something that I would > recommend be used in all cases. Perhaps what you may do is create your > solution and share it with others. You can create a Wiki page > describing how it is used, and I can post it for download. But I have > to agree with Uwe that it doesn't seem like something that would a > framework-level tool. > > -- Ed Leafe
I really hope your wrong. It may be just my thinking but every Dabo needs some sort of lookup. Even AppWizard has lookups for example. I'm hoping some control can be developed that would allow plugs-ins - sort of like how the thinking went with the login code. -- 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]
