On Nov 30, 2009, at 10:12 AM, John wrote:
> Playing devils advocate how does a developer force a blank string
> ('') or a
> zero value for the spinner. And in the case of a spinner what if I
> wanted -1
> to be the no value indicator?
Fill in the DefaultValues. That wouldn't change.
> Another question I have has to do with checkboxes. What is
> the "^^^DaboBlankField^^^" field value of a checkbox? Afterall it
> has three
> values - checked, unchecked, no value?
It's just a placeholder with zero probability of matching an actual
value. The UI controls would have to be modified to recognize this
placeholder and display an equivalent "blank" value.
> What about list values - is it possible to have a
> "^^^DaboBlankField^^^"
> value for a list? I use lists for DB values all the time. I see
> this being
> very difficult to work with - the list has to have the value in the
> list that
> is in the DB.
To be blunt, you don't need to worry about it at all, just the way
that I'm sure you don't worry about the new record flag value. This is
why I said that the conversation should be on dabo-dev, not dabo-users.
-- Ed Leafe
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