Larry, I suspected as much.
Thanks, Dennis ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:12 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: retreiving data from variable listview << If you have a variable listview and you select a row, is there any way to retrieve the contents of each of the columns into separate variables? In this case, the the ID returned is not a primary key on any table so doing a lookup with it is not an option. >> Is this a variable LOOKUP listview? If so, you must go back to the source of the list view to look up the column data. Returning an ID that does not uniquely identify your source row is a problem for two reasons. First, you can't get back to the original data. Secondly, if you have two rows in the list view that return the same ID value, the use will not be able to "point" at the second one - selecting it will cause the FIRST row with that ID value to be highlighted. For that reason, in situations like this, I base the list view on a data view that creates an artificial primary key that disambiguates the row I'm looking at. Alternatively, you _might_ be able to code this with a custom user-defined function that accepts the handle of the list view and a column offset and tunnels directly into the Windows list view representation to extract the text value of the specified column. -- Larry
