Only a comment here...between the "type three" and double-click there is nothing that mean you: upload all customers and filter in ram for the first three chars during users typing
I hope your system is very little (max 500 customers). 2009/7/2 supix <[email protected]> > > Thomas, > > thanks for your reply. I have read the interesting article you > suggested, and it will improve my knowledge about NH. > > Actually, I was thinking of a slightly different type of search form: > > 1) winform based; > 2) the search ends up with identifying exactly one (and only one) > record; > 3) the search has to be as simple as possible, because it is (pheraps > the most) common use case; > 4) multicriteria search (although acceptable) is unlikely; > 4) the search has no statistical purposes. > > For instance, I am thinking about a user which has to fill in a new > invoice from scratch. He has to perform: > > - one search for the right customer; > - one search for the right payment conditions; > - N searches for the products. > > These operation should be as fast as possible (e.g. click on "New > Invoice" button, focus the ClientID text box, press F1, the modal > search form appears, type the first three characters of the customer > name, double-click on the right customer --- which is shown among the > other customers matching the same name-criterium --- the form closes > and all the chosen customer data are put in the invoice form). > > Where should I start to get such a "search component"? > I hope not from placing a DataGridView onto an empty form. :-) > > Thanks, > Marcello. > > > -- Fabio Maulo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
