On Nov 17, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Bob Sysero llc Dev wrote:
> What I want to do is store all the labels in groups in a SQLite
> Database. When my application starts up my "main menuButton Window" I
> want to have my menuManager read the database and create a dictionary
> called menuButtonDetail that will have a list for each button
> information [ID,GroupID,Caption,Color,DoAction,,]. I will also need a
> dictionary called BusinessSelected and QuickAction that will contain a
> list for the button order for BusinessSelection Button1 - Button4,
> with
> a link to the menuButtonDetail ID, HideButton T/F. The QuickAction
> Buttons will contain a the same list. All these dictionary will stay
> in
> memory for the life of the main menuButton Window.
>
> I think what I need to do is use a Business Object that will contain
> my
> menuButtonManager that will change the Buttons Dynamically on the Form
> that was created using the ClassDesigner. The Business Object will not
> directly read that database and change the Buttons on the form. What
> the
> Business Object will do is load my Dictionaries and the Business
> Object
> menuButtonManager will handle the Buttons on the form.
>
> From what I read and heard on the tutorials this is one of the
> functions that the Business Object is design to do. I have no idea how
> to do this with the ClassDesigner and the Business Object. First of
> all
> am I going the right direction?
The logic to get the various groupings would be retrieved via a
business object, but the UI should do all the "changing" of UI
elements such as buttons. So let's say the user clicked the 'Customer'
button. That button should have code like this in its onHit method:
self.Form.setMode("Customer")
The form will have a generic setMode() method that will accept a mode
name such as 'Time Clock' or 'Customer', and update your QuickButtons.
To do that, I'd create a method in the bizobj that would accept that
parameter, run the query to get the label info, etc., from the
database that matches that mode name, and return a list of button
names to the form. The form would then be responsible for setting the
Captions to these values.
I hope that gives you an idea on how to approach this. Let me know if
you need further help.
-- Ed Leafe
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