Interesting comments, thanks Mark.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Staffan Tylen
> <staffan.ty...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>> My understanding is that ooDialog only supports text as item/subitem
>> format.
>>
>
> ooDialog 4.2.1 supports all formats for a list-view that the underlying
> control supports.
>
>
>
>> What I'm looking for is a possibility to define a column that can contain
>> subitems in for example drop-down control format so instead of editing a
>> subitem the user can select a predefined value from a drop-down list. Is
>> this something that could become a reality?
>>
>
> The list-view itself does not support this. If it did, it could easily
> become a reality.
>
> It might be possible for you to code this your self in Rexx. It would be
> quite a bit of work I suspect, with no assurance it would be workable when
> you were done.
>
> The way that the list-view supports in place editing of the label of an
> item is to create and popup a regular edit control the exact size and
> position of the area the label occupies.
>
> What I think you could do, is have a combo box object you create in the
> dialog, but keep it hidden. When the user first clicks an item to select
> it and then clicks again, you would determine which subitem the mouse is
> over and then position and size the combo box as you want over the item,
> then make it visible.
>
> The tricky part would be in the event handler for the click event. You
> would need to determine that the combo box should be shown, then do an
> early reply, and have the combox position and show code, done in a separate
> method. You would need to set the initial focus to the combo box and then
> determine when to hide it. The lost focus event should work.
>
> As I said, I sort of think it would work, but it might not. If it didn't
> work, but almost did, and there was just some piece missing from ooDialog,
> the it could become a reality. In fact I was telling Oliver the other day
> that something he wanted to do might be possible. In-place editing of
> subitems might be possibly by putting up an edit control instead of a combo
> box.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>
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