Hi Yep that's what I did previously but they didn't like it.
Been doing some searching around and one article refers to deleting the text1 control and having to use a backstyle_access property. Cheers G -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: 13 June 2008 14:15 To: GrahamB Subject: Re: Containers in grids Graham Brown wrote: > Hi all > > I'm working on an employee list screen for a client, the table > structure is simply: - Path to picture (c:\staff\geoff.jpg) Name, > address, phone etc Memo > > What I want to show them is a list of employees with the person's > photo top left, name top right, address underneath the name and memo > across the bottom underneath the picture and address. > > What I'm thinking is that this will look nice in a grid with an > embedded container to contain the items above. As with all things this > is proving more difficult than I was expecting ! > I've created the grid, created the container to hold the picture and > text, added the container to column(1), set sparse to .t. and > activecontrol to the container. This gives a data type mismatch error. > > Question is what I'm trying to do possible with a grid and could > anyone give me any pointers please. Do you want to show more than 1 at a time? I'm guessing 'yes' since you're wanting to use a grid. Personally, I'd create a container that objects 3 records and then just use buttons to set the data in the containers accordingly. (Like a Next, Previous kind of button sequence.) [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
