Just wondering why you use a grid for the items below rather than say a
list box.
I use grid because grid control is much more flexible it can host other
controls or images very easily.
Keep in mind that it is a "live" treeview-like control. You can click a
category (bold text) and then the contents of the category get disappeared
or appeared.
Also curious about the search box. When someone types something in do they
have to press enter or click the button with the magnifying glass on to get
results back (or do you refresh with each keystroke)
Typicaly, the search runs after the 3rd character as the user writes the
product code but he can click the search button even if he has written just
one character.
Additionaly one more alternative (my favorite way) for making a search form
is shown here:
http://weblogs.foxite.com/vassilisaggelakos/archive/2006/05/18/1551.aspx
(see 1st picture)
This way is ideal if you have photographs of the products.
At first the listview shows pictures of the product categories. When a user
wants to find something double clicks on the category and then the listview
control displays the photographs of the products. If you combine this
functionality with some "filters" or a search text box that brings the data
as the user writes a product code, you will achieve a "blind" search
experience.
IMHO, We, as developers, fail to understand that our users want to find
their products while we see just fields and records.
Vassilis Aggelakos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Cushing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Showing matches when user types into text box.
Vassilis Aggelakos wrote:
I often use something like this:
http://www.btfworks.gr/productsscreen.php
There is a search text box and below from it there is an hierarchical
grid! (pure Visual Foxpro code)
The results are devided in categories
If you are interested on this let me know.
Hi Vassilis,
Looks interesting as not seen that type of results display before. Just
wondering why you use a grid for the items below rather than say a list
box.
Also curious about the search box. When someone types something in do
they have to press enter or click the button with the magnifying glass on
to get results back (or do you refresh with each keystroke)
Thanks,
Peter
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