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 worked it through. So I am happy to help people avoid the rut I had fallen into on this issue or help newbie’s avoid the rut.
Plus if I type it out here I might find just find it again when I forget how to do it in a couple of years. That has happened more than once. Look online for a solution to a problem, find the answer and then find that I had written it. :-( Martin > On Apr 27, 2021, at 11:07 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 <mk...@rogers.com> wrote: >> >> 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 Datagrid command EditTextField >> >> Here is the handler I use in my project which I adapted from the DG7 form of >> the DGForms.zip file that you can download here: >> https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20130 >> >> >> -------------------- >> on mouseDoubleUp pMouseBtnNum >> >> local theKey >> >> >> -- Example of how to edit the contents of a field. >> >> -- By passing the index of the record associated with copy of this template >> being displayed and >> >> -- a key (array key) the data grid will automatically save the changes the >> user >> >> -- makes and refresh the UI by calling FillInData and resizeControl. >> >> if pMouseBtnNum is 1 then >> >> if the dgProps["allow editing"] of the dgControl of me then >> >> put the short name of the target into sEditedField >> >> switch sEditedField >> >> case "RaterComments" >> >> put "CriteriaComments" into theKey >> >> EditFieldText the long id of the target, the dgIndex of me, >> theKey >> >> break >> >> case "title" >> >> put "title" into theKey >> >> EditFieldText the long id of the target, the dgIndex of >> me, theKey >> >> break >> >> end switch >> >> end if >> >> end if >> >> pass mouseDoubleUp >> end mouseDoubleUp >> >> >> —————— >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Martin Koob >> >> >>> On Apr 27, 2021, at 8:20 AM, hakan--- via use-livecode >>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> 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 >>>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Folks: >>>> I’m wanting to use a datagrid to store data that I enter by hand. >>>> >>>> Seems this oughta be quite simple, but ….. messing with the docs is >>>> frustrating. >>>> >>>> I want to be able to click on an empty cell in a datagrid, have it open, >>>> and enter a number or text. Then I want to store the values to a file. I >>>> have no problem with using dgArray to get the data and store it, but the >>>> simple act of opening a cell so I can enter a number eludes me. >>>> >>>> I’m sure there must be tutorials, but I guess I’m impatient to sort >>>> through them. When I started looking around, I see there’s a problem >>>> trying to enter data into an empty cell. I need to do this. The cells with >>>> data open and let me enter values when I double click, but ……. empty ones? >>>> >>>> Could somebody point me to a tutorial that lets me do this simple task >>>> with a datagrid? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Bill >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> use-livecode mailing list >>>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>>> subscription preferences: >>>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
