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On 25/07/14 14:03, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond That's probably because it was a Field with the Table properties set. I found that out by taking a look at Bernd's stack which was referred to earlier. Regards Peter Well that is very much still a feature, and I'm not going to bother teach

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Richmond That's probably because it was a Field with the Table properties set. I found that out by taking a look at Bernd's stack which was referred to earlier. Regards Peter On 25 Jul 2014, at 16:22, Richmond wrote: > On 24/07/14 23:51, stephen barncard wrote: >> >> >> years ago, there

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On 24/07/14 23:51, stephen barncard wrote: years ago, there was a "Datagrid" type control for REV (before the actual Datagrid was possible through changes in the engine). The datagrid we "all know and love" (possibly 'lurve' might be better here) was introduced in version 3.5.0. Just c

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On 24/07/14 23:51, stephen barncard wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Richmond wrote: Thanks for quick and comprehensible answer! It would be "quite a good thing" if that were explicitly explained somewhere, The Dictionary, perhaps? years ago, there was a "Datagrid" type control for

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I did find a lik for mtf although I'm not certain it's the most recent version: http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/modTableField/modTableField_0_2_6pub.livecode.zip Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:51 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > The late and brilliant Frenchman Eric Chatonet created something called > LISTMAGIC which, I think, utilized the little-understood table field for > his product. > Also check out Bernd's modTableField.

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On Jul 24, 2014, at 1:51 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Richmond > wrote: > >> Thanks for quick and comprehensible answer! >> >> It would be "quite a good thing" if that were explicitly explained >> somewhere, >> >> The Dictionary, perhaps? >> > > years ago,

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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Richmond wrote: > Thanks for quick and comprehensible answer! > > It would be "quite a good thing" if that were explicitly explained > somewhere, > > The Dictionary, perhaps? > years ago, there was a "Datagrid" type control for REV (before the actual Datagrid wa

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On 24/07/14 19:28, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 24.07.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Richmond : Which could also be titled "Avoiding the Data Grid if at all possible." So; Richmond, only about 12 years after discovering Livecode, tries a table field . . . And wonders who one refers to the colu

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Hi Richmond, Am 24.07.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Richmond : > Which could also be titled "Avoiding the Data Grid if at all possible." > So; Richmond, only about 12 years after discovering Livecode, tries a table > field . . . > And wonders who one refers to the columns and/or cells. a table field is

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Which could also be titled "Avoiding the Data Grid if at all possible." So; Richmond, only about 12 years after discovering Livecode, tries a table field . . . And wonders who one refers to the columns and/or cells. I want to copy the contents of line 2, column 3 into another field. Would be

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Skip, Thanks for sharing the links and the kind words about DGH. Much appreciated. Best Regards, On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: > Alain, > > If you do ANY work with the datagrid, especially complicated formatting, > this is a must-have tool. > > Here

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Hi Richmond, I've updated my website with a stack demonstrating how to drag&drop rows from a datagrid to another. This is an updated version of an example I've already shared in the past. The stack is demonstrating: - dragging from dg 1 to dg 2 with deleting the row in dg 1 - dragging from dg 1 t

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Thanks Klaus! On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > Alain, > > If you do ANY work with the datagrid, especially complicated formatting, > this is a must-have tool. > > Here are some links: > http://www.aslugontheroad.com/ourproducts/2-w

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Alain, If you do ANY work with the datagrid, especially complicated formatting, this is a must-have tool. Here are some links: http://www.aslugontheroad.com/ourproducts/2-what-is-dgh https://livecode.com/store/marketplace/data-grid-helper-1-2-0/ On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Alain Farmer

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To Skip Kimpel, About: "if you intend on digging deep into datagrid, make sure you get the Datagrid Helper". Question: what is "Datagrid Helper" ? what is its URL ? Thanks, On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:11:08 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi Skip, Am 23.07.2014 um 12:55 schrieb Skip Kimpel :

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Hi Skip, Am 23.07.2014 um 12:55 schrieb Skip Kimpel : > Datagrid is a complicated and awesome beast. very, very true! > It is very powerful BUT the documentation for it is all over the place. I > have yet to find a single concise reference area. Get the complete docs as PDF here:

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Datagrid is a complicated and awesome beast. It is very powerful BUT the documentation for it is all over the place. I have yet to find a single concise reference area. And if you intend on digging deep into datagrid, make sure you get the Datagrid Helper! That will save you HOURS of frustra

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On 07/23/2014 10:16 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Also, "dataGrid" is not a LiveCode object. You need to reference the data grid using "group" or "control". Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design Thanks: I'm getting there, slowly! Richmond. On 7/23/14 12:03 AM, "Ri

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Also, "dataGrid" is not a LiveCode object. You need to reference the data grid using "group" or "control". Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 7/23/14 12:03 AM, "Richmond" wrote: >On 23/07/14 09:54, Richmond wrote: >> I have a bog-basic data extraction sta

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On 23/07/14 09:54, Richmond wrote: I have a bog-basic data extraction stack that extracts lines from a list field and puts them into another list field. I want to make an equivalent stack using 2 dataGrids . . . Now when I put something like this: if line XXX of dataGrid "BING" contains "Socks

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I have a bog-basic data extraction stack that extracts lines from a list field and puts them into another list field. I want to make an equivalent stack using 2 dataGrids . . . Now when I put something like this: if line XXX of dataGrid "BING" contains "Socks" then put line XXX of dataGrid "