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Down at the bottom, everything most people want to know about datagrids with lessons, examples and an API. I have a whole bookmark folder on Livecode and LC related stuff, in a book mark bar in my browser. That way I have one place to go for reference material. Bob On Sep 28, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > And then gmail ate my message, with no saved version??? > > Anyway, let's see if I can remember all of this. > > It seems that the file "LiveCode_Data_Grd.pdf" is what passes for > documentation for datagrids? Or is there some other manual out there > that actually documents it? > > This seems to be a situation of shooting flies with cannon. I need to > have the user able to enter rows with two to four elements, with > usually zero to a few rows, but sometimes a great many. Always pure > text, but might be multiple lines. > > So since I need to work with rows, I need a "Form" template rather > than the "table" type? (In spite of this being what we'd call a > "table" in English?) > > loading/saving from a 2d array is not a problem. It then seems that I > should set the dgData to this array? > > So i drag a dg onto my card, then click on the row behavior & template > behavior to get stuff copied over, and start editing those? > > And then add buttons to the template for things like delete row? > > And since three are something like 50 different ones of these that I > want to edit with the same editor, I can name the fields I add to the > template A, B, C, and D, and set the widths & position of these in the > template from a script? > > Am I getting anything out of this as opposed to a basic table other > than being able to have a delete button, not have to trap for return > to not jump down a row, and getting alternating grey rows? > > thanks > > > -- > Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
