I totally disagree with those of you who say that grids are not good for
data entry. I use them all the time, both for just displaying data or as
dataentry objects or even as picklists.
Just take a look at these articles that I wrote years ago on the use of
grids to make invoices and the use of cursor adapters to save data. Also
there are a couple that show how to use them as picklists.
As far as I am concerned, they are fantastic objects.
All you have to do is consider them as containers to textboxes (or other
objects, such as command buttons, checkboxes, etc). Actually they are
containers!, and simply program (in most cases) the contained objects.
http://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageArticle.aspx?ID=729
http://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageArticle.aspx?ID=712
http://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageArticle.aspx?ID=667
http://www.universalthread.com/ViewPageArticle.aspx?ID=817
You can even use them to select data, as for instance, you show a list
of customers in a grid, select one by either pressing enter (just
program the keypress event in the textbox) or double click (program the
double click event), the grid closes and you can bring the whole record
into a calling form to show it. Or simply navigate the grid (put code in
the afterrowcolchange event of the grid) and show data in the form or in
another grid by just using a sql statement.
The possibilities are endless.
Don't shy away from grids. They are good.
Rafael Copquin
El 19/04/2013 06:44 p.m., AndyHC escribió:
+1 ... but use a CursorAdapter.
On 20/04/2013 02:29, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote:
Gene - I totally agree w/RK! Creating a Grid on a Form via Visual
Design is really the best way to go - at least in my opinion. And,
you can do it in an interesting an intuitive way.
Create a Form. Right click in the Form and open the Data
Environment. Add a DBF to the D. Env. - and, now - with DBF & its
fields displayed in the D.E. - select a number of the field by
clicking - and I think holding down shift. Then - simply Drag all
those selected fields onto the Form - and you instantly have a Grid
that's been populated with the fields that you need!
-K-
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