#88574 - 2002-10-08 08:56 PM
Kixforms - Whats the "view" on "listviews"
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Shawn
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For anybody that has had a chance to play with forms listviews, was just wondering what (if any) the feedback was. Right now - the listview has a couple of issues that I've either fixed, or that am in the middle of fixing (fe sorting has some issues). But I mean just in general terms, specifically in regards to the interface itself (methods and properties) ... was it a mistake to go dotnet or would have an Excel type interface been a better approach ?
The one thing I would like to see more of are the one-shot calls, fe to create some columns:
$list.columns.count = 3 $list.columns.text = "Name","Address","Phone" $list.columns.alignment = 2,0,2
$list.items.count = 100
that sorta thingy ... any other comments good, bad or indifferent [actually - would rather hear bad than indifferent ]
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#88575 - 2002-10-08 10:44 PM
Re: Kixforms - Whats the "view" on "listviews"
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Chris S.
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Well, me likey the ListViews very much. I think the dotnet approach is the right way to go. I like the $object.property.property.... stuff.
BTW, I think I found another bug in 2.1. I did a FileSaveDialog and the 'Save as file type' dropdown has some funky characters in there. I went back to 2.0.5 and they weren't in there.
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#88582 - 2002-10-09 02:14 AM
Re: Kixforms - Whats the "view" on "listviews"
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Chris S.
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Whew. I'm not going crazy then.
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#88593 - 2002-10-09 03:44 PM
Re: Kixforms - Whats the "view" on "listviews"
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Shawn
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j - a property to disable column headers was always in the plan - just haven't implemented it yet. might want to see if Howards admin dll can push data through sockets -
in terms of the dotnet stuff - i researched and studied a whole bunch of different interfaces for the listview. Everything from VB6 to Excel to MSFlexGrid to Custom third party grids. At the end of the day, it really came down to the dotnet or the Excel interface. And really, the only big difference was in the naming scheme, fe to set a text value in Excel vs Forms:
excel: $list.rows(1).cells(1).value = "j"
forms: $list.items(1).subitems(1).text = "j"
this is the kind of discussion i was hoping to generate ... the interface makes or breaks the component (imho) and I want to do whats right in terms of having the best interface for the job. [ 09. October 2002, 15:48: Message edited by: Shawn ]
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