This is something more complex that NS Basic provides. We expose most of the controls in the Palm OS API, but you're looking for a data-aware table control, something that isn't built into the Palm OS.
Palm devices do not have enough memory to load an entire datebase into a table at once, so each time your table showed a new view of the data, it would have to go to the underlying database to get the next set of records. With NS Basic supporting Palm Database's ability to be completely free format, there is no practical way to make this automatic, without being complex and restrictive. We try hard to avoid being either of these. George Henne NS BASIC Corporation http://www.nsbasic.com >On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:22:32 -0400, "George Henne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> >>You might want to add NS Basic/Palm to your list. It's been around for 3 >>years, looks and feels a lot like VB, and fully supports Palm OS 5. It is >>also pleasantly less expensive than the others. > >Hi >I downloaded the NSBasic trial. It looks nice & easy to use and >although I usually work in C, I was thinking of using it for quick >prototyping. > >However I have not found any table-like control. Listbox, yes, but no >table. Did I miss something? > >I would like to create a view of a database that has many (10000) >records without having to load them all (like we do in C with a >table). > >A listbox requires you to call the add method for all the records even >though you will only be displaying about 10 at a time. > >With a table, you can access the 10 records you're going to display, >and you're ready to display so it's faster and requires less memory > >I would also like to do custom draw on the viewed items, allowing the >app to format the displayed text, create fake columns, etc > >Can that be done with NSBasic? > >Thanks >Olivier Lancelot > >-- >For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, >please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
