Re: Option Menu Specifics
Andrew, Welcome, and ask all of your questions. We love em! Also, it is wonderful to see someone's conversion to RunRev and where the obvious and not so obvious problems are. What a great story yours will be. Tom McGrath III Lazy River Software 3mcgr...@comcast.net iTunes Library Suite - libITS Information and download can be found on this page: http://www.lazyriversoftware.com/RevOne.html On Feb 8, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Between Mark and J's post, I got everything I needed to know. I need to explore string manipulation in rev. I figured that this is where my sorting of these lists would be most handy. Thank you Mark for that wonderful snippet. As a PHP and .NET developer, I am just getting used to Rev and trying to get over the learning curve. You have been much help. Armed with a few more learning resources than I had prior to these posts, I hopefully won't have to bother you with silly things like this. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Option-Menu-Specifics-tp1473235p1473428.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Option Menu Specifics
Hello again! I am having difficulty figuring out how to script some specifics into option menus. My option menu is populated on preOpenCard and everything lists smoothly. When set to view, this card displays a LandOwner's Name in a disabled text field. When the cards status is set to update, it shows a list of names pulled from a table in a mySQL db, in alphabetical order. However, the current record being worked with was loaded on a previous card and the information was put into a set of global variables. gLandOwnerContact (the current record's landowner name). I want the default selection for the option menu to be the same as gLandOwnerContact. But when clicked, I still want it to display a full list of the names. I am just beginning in Revolution. I have modified column and row behaviors in DataGrids (to change cards on doubleUp), but never overridden any other controls functionality. I am thinking this is what is going to take to implement the above. Can someone point me on the right path or help me hash out the appropriate logic for this? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Andrew K. RJD Farm LLC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
I think you need to use a combination of FindIndex and dgHilitedIndex like so: dispatch findIndex to group myDataGrid with myColumnName, mySearchString put the result into myValue set the dgHilitedIndex of group myDataGrid to myValue Bob On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Hello again! I am having difficulty figuring out how to script some specifics into option menus. My option menu is populated on preOpenCard and everything lists smoothly. When set to view, this card displays a LandOwner's Name in a disabled text field. When the cards status is set to update, it shows a list of names pulled from a table in a mySQL db, in alphabetical order. However, the current record being worked with was loaded on a previous card and the information was put into a set of global variables. gLandOwnerContact (the current record's landowner name). I want the default selection for the option menu to be the same as gLandOwnerContact. But when clicked, I still want it to display a full list of the names. I am just beginning in Revolution. I have modified column and row behaviors in DataGrids (to change cards on doubleUp), but never overridden any other controls functionality. I am thinking this is what is going to take to implement the above. Can someone point me on the right path or help me hash out the appropriate logic for this? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Andrew K. RJD Farm LLC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
Sorry for not clarifying. I am not trying to work within a datagrid this time. I do not understand how to modify the behaviors of controls other than the datagrid. There isn't a button in the property inspector for modifying behaviors of an option menu. I have read the lessons on behaviors and am still lacking a real understanding of where to find the code for handling the functionality of the option menu. here is the logic which I had in mind. Load gLandownerContact into the text of optionMenu on optionMenu's MouseUp (down, whatev), Load a the full list from DB. Alternatively, Being able to modify the choices of the option menu to place the current gLandOwnerContact at the top of the list would solve my problem as well. load a full list from the DB put CurrentChoice (= gLandOwnerContact) at the top of choice list, or at least the default seclected option. Whichever solution is easier or more robust would suit me. Although, I would like to learn about the behavior override thing. The lessons seemed too vague to me. http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lessons/buckets/784/tags?tag=Behavior -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Option-Menu-Specifics-tp1473235p1473299.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
Andrew- Monday, February 8, 2010, 10:26:11 AM, you wrote: here is the logic which I had in mind. Load gLandownerContact into the text of optionMenu on optionMenu's MouseUp (down, whatev), Load a the full list from DB. you might try something like put lineOffset(gLandOwnerContact, tFullList) into tIndex put tFullList into button btnOptionMenu lock messages -- don't trigger the menuPick event yet set the menuHistory of button btnOptionMenu to tIndex unlock messages -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
Andrew Kluthe wrote: Sorry for not clarifying. I am not trying to work within a datagrid this time. I do not understand how to modify the behaviors of controls other than the datagrid. There isn't a button in the property inspector for modifying behaviors of an option menu. I have read the lessons on behaviors and am still lacking a real understanding of where to find the code for handling the functionality of the option menu. here is the logic which I had in mind. Load gLandownerContact into the text of optionMenu on optionMenu's MouseUp (down, whatev), Load a the full list from DB. Use Mark Weider's suggestion, it will work fine. I just wanted to mention that for a single button instance like this, you don't need behaviors at all. Behaviors are great when you have a number of controls that need to share a single script, but if you only have one button it is more efficient to have it just use its own script. One basic concept that may help: buttons are containers and they can hold text. If the button is a menu button (as option buttons are) then the text becomes the menu item list. You can populate a button menu simply by putting text into the button, like this: put one cr two cr three into btn myOptionButton This creates a 3-line list, which when put into the button, will pop down those three lines in its menu. Everything else you want to do is just manipulation of the text before you put it into the button contents. If you want a particular line on top, parse your text so it is in the right order. But more typically, Mark's suggestion is the right one. Use the menuHistory property to set the line that will be under the cursor when the button menu displays. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
Between Mark and J's post, I got everything I needed to know. I need to explore string manipulation in rev. I figured that this is where my sorting of these lists would be most handy. Thank you Mark for that wonderful snippet. As a PHP and .NET developer, I am just getting used to Rev and trying to get over the learning curve. You have been much help. Armed with a few more learning resources than I had prior to these posts, I hopefully won't have to bother you with silly things like this. -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Option-Menu-Specifics-tp1473235p1473428.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
Andrew Kluthe wrote: As a PHP and .NET developer, I am just getting used to Rev and trying to get over the learning curve. You have been much help. Armed with a few more learning resources than I had prior to these posts, I hopefully won't have to bother you with silly things like this. I've said it before and I'll say it again: please bother us! Any question asked here will help everybody who searches the archives in the future. Let's get everything we can in there. Nothing is too elementary or too basic. As a matter of fact, I think our archives are sadly lacking a lot of the rudimentary info that newcomers are too embarrassed to ask about. So you do it. :) Bother away! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
Bother away! Indeed! I'll also add that I think this list is the best resource there is for getting rev information. The archives are available at gmane and nabble and a few other places and searchable with the right tools. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Option Menu Specifics
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@rjdfarm.com wrote: However, the current record being worked with was loaded on a previous card and the information was put into a set of global variables. gLandOwnerContact (the current record's landowner name). Hi Andrew, Welcome to the Revolution. As you've already discovered, you really can do a lot in one week with Revolution. As other's have said, forget about books, ask all the questions you want on this List. I'm going to depart from answering your question but offer some advise. Do a search of the archives for: global vs custom properties. There is even a long thread titled Best Practices using globals vs. custprops? - dated 23 Jun 07. Your mentioning of 'a set of global variables' just strikes me as a perfect scenario of custom properties and custom property sets. As you are just starting out with Rev it may be the perfect opportunity to see if these suit your situation. There is nothing wrong with globals, but as you'll discover on this List, there are some gotchas that can be avoided by using Custom Properties and they really are a much loved feature of Rev. Hate for you to get 3 months down the track and go, Custom Properties???, no body told me about them... I could have.. ;-) HTH ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
