On 10/13/11 7:38 AM, Chris G wrote: > Finally to the question - is it possible to have a form/view of my table > that looks like the Browse tab view of the table but allows me to edit > (and add to) the records in place?
Yes. > I want especially to be able to > create a view of the table that shows the records and columns exactly as > in the Browse tab but with an extra blank row/record at the bottom into > which one can simply type the next row's values using the TAB key to go > from column to column. Ideally I'd like to be able to edit existing > records in the same manner (except of course that initial values are there > already) but that's not so important. Yes. > Having to click on each value to edit it is much too painful and the > ability to see the preceding records as one adds a new one is also very > important for this particular application. There are cases for editable grids. You need to do two things: 1) set grid.Column.Editable = True 2) set grid.Editable = True Find the appwizard-generated code in ui/Grd<name>.py where <name> is the table name. > So is it reasonably simple to do such a thing in dabo? Reasonably simple, yes. However you don't get all the bells and whistles of using a real textbox, spinner, checkbox, etc. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/4e971b23.3020...@ulmcnett.com
