Re: Simple Datagrid task?

2021-04-27 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Bill I totally understand. I struggled with this a few months ago partly because it is counter intuitive that I couldn’t just enter text in a field in the DataGrid that I could edit and partly because I couldn’t figure out how to do it from the docs. Finally I found the example stack and worke

Re: Simple Datagrid task?

2021-04-27 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Thanks for your help. I hate to ask such newby questions, but I’m really busy, and what I needed to do seemed so basic. Best, Bill William Prothero https://earthlearningsolutions.org > On Apr 27, 2021, at 6:51 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > > Hi > > I wanted to give you more of an explanation of

Re: Simple Datagrid task?

2021-04-27 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi I wanted to give you more of an explanation of how to get enter text in field to work. Just refreshing my own memory I had to go back to my project. So as Håkan said you have to first allow editing. Then you can’t just enter text into a cell and have it deal with it. You have to use a

Re: Simple Datagrid task?

2021-04-27 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi again Actually this is a better link for this resource. https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20130 Martin Koob > On Apr 27, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > > HI > > Here is a great resource stack on DataGrids you can see how to perform > different actions. It has 8 diff

Re: Simple Datagrid task?

2021-04-27 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
HI Here is a great resource stack on DataGrids you can see how to perform different actions. It has 8 different Datagrid forms showing different aspects. See Datagrid Form 7 of the stack. DG7: User input, user edit text, wrap text, sum column of numbers https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p

Re: Simple Datagrid task?

2021-04-27 Thread hakan--- via use-livecode
On the second tab in the preferences pane there is a checkbox that says ”Allow text editing”. If you have that selected you can edit the text by double-clicking a cell. Or do you need something else? :-Håkan > On 26 Apr 2021, at 21:03, William Prothero via use-livecode > wrote: > > Folks: >