Mike Thanks for your reply
Mike yearwood wrote: > Hi Paul > > Re something you said in the TRY CATCH thread. I believe almost all > examples, including those that come with VFP are "contrived". So > little is ready to be applied in the real world. It's not so much that the example "is ready to be applied in the real world" but that it reflects a real-world situation, so that when you look at the example you can say "I can see what that does (or can do) and how it could be useful to me - or how I could make use of it". A bit like the difference between pure and appled maths (I was good at pure maths but very good at applied maths) > In this case a field mover is not something required in every app, so it's > not too likely > their will be anything just hanging around. :) You'll probably have to > roll your own. > Agreed - but what bugs me is the fact that the example of the field mover that ships with VFP9 does not work (even as a contrived rather than real-world example) > I have a field mover screen shot: > http://foxridgesoftware.com/Software/ScreenDesigns/DataImporter/tabid/82/Default.aspx > Very nice > There is not really any code I can give you as it's built specifically > for and in Visual MaxFrame Professional. > Shame <s> Snipped some, then: > The sample I showed does disable the fields, but I advise you to > remove the moved fields - that gives the user less scrolling on the > left side. Once moved and not re-ordered the user will be able to scan > through the remaining fields faster. In other words it's a mover. It's > called that for a reason. That's part of the design. Don't change the > design. Embrace it! > Mike, you really crack me up - I tell you what I want to do, you show me an example of what you have done (which is exactly what I want to do - i.e. don't move but disable the items in the source list) and then tell me not to do it. Priceless ! Of couse if you want to be a purist I suppose I am looking for a "selector" rather than a "mover". Anyway thanks again for a great reply ! Paul Newton _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
