Antonio: Requested xBrowse enhancement
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:18 am
Antonio,
When editing a cell in xBrowse, I need the ability for UP and DOWN keys to complete the edit and move in the direction indicated. (i.e. instead of having to press RETURN first).
I've been using LKM's TCBrowse for many years and love his version but I'm looking at the benefits of "modernising" to xBrowse. Some years ago I made some fairly complicated changes to LKM's TCBrowse to provide the above UP / DOWN facility, including a "No follow" action if the edit was on a field in the current cdx tag.
e.g. Assume the data (indexed by Product) is:
PRODUCT PRICE
Blue Cap 5
Blue Coat 42
Blue Dress 33
Blue Trousers 70
- If you changed the Coat price then pressed DOWN, you would be on the Dress record.
- However, if instead you wanted to change all the "Blue"s to "Red" in all product descriptions, then after changing "Blue Cap" to "Red Cap" and then pressing DOWN (without pressing RETURN), you would want to be on the "Blue Coat" record, not the record following "Red Cap". (i.e. You have changed the index order but now want to change the price of the next product you were up to).
As mentioned, my changes to LKM's TCBrowse already handle this but took me quite a while to work out back then and the code is "messy" and it would seem to be a big job for me to make equivalent changes in xBrowse.
This facility is extremely useful. (For me, vital).
Are you able to implement this feature in xBrowse, Antonio?
I'm also interested in how many other FiveWinners are interested in you adding such an enhancement. (I would have thought many people would have the need).
Thanks,
Colin
When editing a cell in xBrowse, I need the ability for UP and DOWN keys to complete the edit and move in the direction indicated. (i.e. instead of having to press RETURN first).
I've been using LKM's TCBrowse for many years and love his version but I'm looking at the benefits of "modernising" to xBrowse. Some years ago I made some fairly complicated changes to LKM's TCBrowse to provide the above UP / DOWN facility, including a "No follow" action if the edit was on a field in the current cdx tag.
e.g. Assume the data (indexed by Product) is:
PRODUCT PRICE
Blue Cap 5
Blue Coat 42
Blue Dress 33
Blue Trousers 70
- If you changed the Coat price then pressed DOWN, you would be on the Dress record.
- However, if instead you wanted to change all the "Blue"s to "Red" in all product descriptions, then after changing "Blue Cap" to "Red Cap" and then pressing DOWN (without pressing RETURN), you would want to be on the "Blue Coat" record, not the record following "Red Cap". (i.e. You have changed the index order but now want to change the price of the next product you were up to).
As mentioned, my changes to LKM's TCBrowse already handle this but took me quite a while to work out back then and the code is "messy" and it would seem to be a big job for me to make equivalent changes in xBrowse.
This facility is extremely useful. (For me, vital).
Are you able to implement this feature in xBrowse, Antonio?
I'm also interested in how many other FiveWinners are interested in you adding such an enhancement. (I would have thought many people would have the need).
Thanks,
Colin