Would like to see….

Drag and drop capabilities. What would it take? Is this a concept that grew old and nobody sees a need for it anymore?

Multi-valued checkboxes. For the Field TOPOGRAPHY, a user may have any of the choices Flat, Rolling, Hilly, Lakefront, Swamp, etc. But, these values are only stored in a single, multi-valued field, not a dozen seperate fields.

Support for jpeg images. Maybe I didn't see it, but from what I read in the manuals, we can't display or print these in reports.

Right button Event distinguished from the CLICK event. I know, I saw the code for programming this myself, but I can't help thinking that, for most WIN95 applications, anyway, this is a distinctly seperate event.

When I first fired up OI, I was constantly right clicking on stuff hoping I would get an idea what to do, or what it was for.

Long filename support. Isn't the long filename table available in the WIN95 environment? When I read about the filenaming in the Reporter, I about croaked. Back to 8 character filena… Wait a minute. We NEVER had to deal with DOS filenaming before. Why should we have to do it now?

All for now… There'll be more, I'm sure.

Paul

Paul,

Multi-valued checkboxes. For the Field TOPOGRAPHY, a user may have any of the choices Flat, Rolling, Hilly, Lakefront, Swamp, etc. But, these values are only stored in a single, multi-valued field, not a dozen seperate fields.

Can you use a Radio Button Group to accomplish what you are describing? If not, please elaborate.

Support for jpeg images. Maybe I didn't see it, but from what I read in the manuals, we can't display or print these in reports.

There is support for jpeg (and many other formats) already.

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

As far as the Radio Button group goes…

These options are not exclusive - user can have more than one.

I found something similar to what I want in the knowledgebase. It was on checkboxes in a dropdown list box. I think it was one of the earlier ones.

It's similar, but not the same. In effect, I would like six checkboxes all representing the multi-valued field #7 in a record.

Thanks

Paul

Paul,

I found something similar to what I want in the knowledgebase. It was on checkboxes in a dropdown list box. I think it was one of the earlier ones. It's similar, but not the same. In effect, I would like six checkboxes all representing the multi-valued field #7 in a record.

I'm not sure which knowledgebase article you were reading, but Cameron posted something in CIS that described how to create a listbox control that had checkboxes.

I have an application for pest control operators that allows the end user to select which chemicals are included in a particular treatment method. The underlying field is a single multi-valued field. So whenever an existing record is pulled up those chemicals that were selected originally will re-appear as "selected" (or highlighted). If you were to look in the record using the System Editor, you would only see those chemical names that were selected.

The trick is to populate the LIST property of the listbox with the total possible entries prior to the record being read. In your case, the list seems fairly static so I would place those options in the control during design time.

Adding the checkboxes should be a relatively simple matter and should accomplish exactly what you are after.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions

Paul,

I misunderstood the use of the checkboxes vs. radio buttons in your example. The listbox with checkboxes should work for you. The only question is, do you have multi-values such that each one has a "different listbox with checkboxes" ie. each value has a different set of checks? Or is it just that you have one set of checks for the record?

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

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Cameron,

The listbox _should_ work, but it's not the same. I want the "show all possibilities" of a radio group (without having to pull down anything) combined with multi-select checkboxes.

thanks

Paul

Paul,

The listbox _should_ work, but it's not the same. I want the "show all possibilities" of a radio group (without having to pull down anything) combined with multi-select checkboxes.

I guess what you are saying is that you want the exact look of using actual checkbox controls rather than displaying a listbox control with checkboxes inside it (which, admittedly, must look a particular way since it is still a listbox.)

In that case, my suggestion is to create non-databound checkboxes which get filled during the READ event and get resolved to your single multi-valued field during the WRITE event. AFAIK, there is nothing databound that will allow you to scatter a bunch of checkboxes on your form and then tie them to a single multi-value field. At least I've never seen anything it.

dbakke@srpcs.com

SRP Computer Solutions

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