Sitting here watching the French Open on a Sunday.. and thinking about something that I've always struggled with in RBase.
Scrolling regions have been there for decades, used to be the ONLY way for us to display multi-row data! When DBGrids were introduced in 7.x, IMO they've always looked more professional, more windows-like. I wish I could replace every region I have with a DBGrid. But my only issue is when I am displaying lookups to other tables, data that has nothing to do with a column in the master table (unlike, say, displaying the name of a customer rather than the table's ID which is totally doable within a grid). Look at the print-screen below. The squared items are form variables located on each row, lookups to display daily production values and the last machine the item was produced on. These are lookups to other tables and have nothing to do with data in the master table other than using its part#. And the user wants to see the data on every row that displays, does not want to click on a row and have the data displayed off to the side (which of course would be easy to do with a grid), and also wants the data to be directly editable. Has anyone put this kind of data into multiple views, and then had "dummy" columns in the master table that you can link to the view using a "pre-defined expression" for the column? Anyone do that? Or another nifty trick I can use? Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
