Yeah, I've written my own handlers to manipulate  the dgText.  Just seems 
simpler somehow. 

Good luck.

Pete Haworth

On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Hi Peter. 
> 
> I tried your method and it worked. I'm still a bit nervous at this point 
> because of the problems I have had using the arrays and such so for now I am 
> going to use dgText. The data in these particular datagrids is never going to 
> be very much data, but later when I work with larger data sets I will need to 
> use this. 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried GetDataofIndex/GetDataofLine?  
>> 
>> put GetDataofLine(linenumber,columnname) into xyz
>> 
>> there's corresponding setData commands as well.
>> 
>> setDataofLine linenumber,columnname,value
>> You have to do a RefreshLine after setDataofLine to see the results in the 
>> datagrid.
>> 
>> Pete Haworth
>> 
>> On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all. 
>>> 
>>> I am still having fits doing what I want. Perhaps in the past I have not 
>>> described it very well, so I am going to try a different approach. 
>>> 
>>> What I need is to access the value in a single cell of a data grid and 
>>> change it. For instance I would like to do something like:
>>> 
>>> set the value of column 1 of row 1 of myDatagrid to "test". Better yet, 
>>> although I know this is wishful thinking, set the 1:1 of myDataGrid to 
>>> "test". Or how about, set the 1:1 to 1:3 of myDataGrid to "test1" & tab & 
>>> "test2" & tab & "test3"? That was the kind of API I envisioned for a table 
>>> object. I know that is simplistic, but I am not getting what I expect to 
>>> get when I use the existing datagrid API. 
>>> 
>>> I have really tried to understand the API but I am at a total loss. I don't 
>>> want to work with arrays here, I want to work with the indexes that the API 
>>> returns. The closest I can get is to get and set the dgDataOfIndex but 
>>> those are arrays. I don't want to change the whole line. I don't want to 
>>> have to put the whole line back together when I only want to change the one 
>>> value in the one column in the one row. Is this even possible? 
>>> 
>>> If not I understand, but it sure oughta be don't you think? Permit me a 
>>> small rant. Shouldn't a table object work kind of like a spreadsheet, where 
>>> I can reference a row and a column and get/set a value? This is really what 
>>> I need. Knowing the internal array structure has not helped me. 
>>> 
>>> I have gotten the dgDataOfIndex for a data grid, modified the first element 
>>> in the array,  set the dgDataOfIndex and then used DataGrid Helper to show 
>>> me the contents of the data grid. The array is IDENTICAL to the one I get 
>>> if I manually edit the values, but if I do it using code the datagrid 
>>> appears empty, and refreshing the datagrid does not help. 
>>> 
>>> So I guess until there is a method of simple row:column referencing of 
>>> datagrids, I am going to revert to using the dgText. Thank GOD and thank 
>>> Trevor for this, or for me data grids would be unusable. 
>>> 
>>> <end_rant>
>>> 
>>> Bob
>>> 
>>> ps. Thanks Zryip for all the help, but it appears your methods call things 
>>> in the parent script that I cannot see or access (that may be a good thing) 
>>> and so I cannot see what they are doing and why. I need to see code happen 
>>> to understand it. 
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