The problem appears to be with TblGetItemBounds and assumptions
it makes with non text columns. The archives appear to concur.
So why not simply patch this routine? Call the original in your patched
version,
but override the response for non text columns. It works like a charm for
me.
Regards,
Simon Bennett,
Senior technical analyst,
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"Bradly J. Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:52765@palm-dev-forum...
>
> > > My problem is not with the display, but with the selection.. For some
> > > reason, I can only click and get a table select event when I click on
> the
> > > top half of a cell, but not the bottom half.
>
> For those who might need something like this....
>
> The archives led to the same conclusion.. that you had to do it yourself..
> my temporary (but not completely elegant yet because the highlight still
> looks odd, I'm open to suggestions on solving that part) solution to this
is
> this code in my event handler:
>
> *** Declared in the handler:
> static RectangleType tableBounds;
> static Boolean isDownInTable;
>
> *** tableBounds is set to the bounding rectangle of my table and
> isDownInTable is set to false in the frmOpenEvent:
> TblGetBounds(table, &tableBounds);
> isDownInTable = false;
>
> *** I added these penDown and penUp Events..
>
> case penDownEvent:
> {
> isDownInTable = RctPtInRectangle (event->screenX, event->screenY,
> &tableBounds);
> break;
> }
> case penUpEvent:
> {
> if (isDownInTable && RctPtInRectangle (event->screenX, event->screenY,
> &tableBounds))
> {
> int row;
> RectangleType cellBounds;
> cellBounds.topLeft.x = tableBounds.topLeft.x;
> cellBounds.topLeft.y = tableBounds.topLeft.y;
> cellBounds.extent.x = tableBounds.extent.x;
> // my table has 5 rows, but this could be replaced by a call to
> TblGetNumberOfRows
> cellBounds.extent.y = tableBounds.extent.y / 5;
> row = 0;
> while (row < 5) // ditto note above about number of rows...
> {
> if (RctPtInRectangle(event->data.penUp.start.x,
> event->data.penUp.start.y, &cellBounds) &&
> RctPtInRectangle(event->data.penUp.end.x, event->data.penUp.end.y,
> &cellBounds))
> break;
> cellBounds.topLeft.y += cellBounds.extent.y;
> idx++;
> }
> if (row < 5) // ditto again...
> {
> // the pen went down and up on the same row and "row" is the value
> }
> }
> isDownInTable = false;
> break;
> }
>
>
>
>
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