Thinking about it, this is not the first time this issue has popped up for me. I had to use scrolling regions instead.
I will put in an enhancement request for it. Maybe it will be included in 9.5.... Dan Goldberg From: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 8:34 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Using a lookup variable in a db grid Dan: I would love to use DBGrids more often for data entry. They are so much more "clean" and professional looking than scrolling regions. But I haven't figured out a solution yet to what you're asking. If the client's up for it, you can define a form variable for the lookups and display those form variables next to the grid. As you move from row to row the variables will update. But that doesn't help you if the client wants to see the values on all the rows at the same time. The other thing I don't like about grids is that you cannot use the [enter] key to move from field to field, row to row, like you can with regions. The clients who are used to using the [enter] key to move around, that's often a show stopper for them. For some reason, they just don't like the [tab] key... Except for those 2 things, I'd be using DBGrids much more often than I do... Karen In a message dated 2/10/2012 9:20:05 AM Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I would like to use a dbgrid for data entry. I have a part number field in the grid and I would like to have the description of the part number in the field next to it. The description is in another table. So it would be a variable lookup. I have figured out how to do a hint expression but the user would like to see the description in the grid without having to put the mouse over each item. I was wondering if anybody has ran into this and has any suggestions. TIA Dan Goldberg
