Bug in Edit Table ?? (OpenInsight Specific)
At 28 NOV 1997 06:20:43AM Michelle wrote:
How can I get the cells of an edit table to accept a variable number of characters (i.e. to behave like an edit line). I don't want to tie up memory by setting eccessively large Data Lengths. I read somewhere that setting the Data Length to 0 should allow the user to enter any number of characters in the cell.
I have been using edit tables in my application and I have been setting the data length to 0.
the problem I am encountering is that the data length becomes proportional to the original size of that column (i.e., a 300 Width column allows a maximum of 51 characters while a 70 Width column allows a maximum of 12 characters).
Is this a bug, or is it supposed to be so?
At 28 NOV 1997 09:41AM Don Bakke wrote:
Michelle,
How can I get the cells of an edit table to accept a variable number of characters (i.e. to behave like an edit line).
There is no way to do this. Any given cell can hold up to 999 characters or less - depending on what value is entered in the data length field.
I read somewhere that setting the Data Length to 0 should allow the user to enter any number of characters in the cell.
More than likely you read that setting the Row Limit to -1 will allow the edittable as a whole to hold more than 64K of data. This will not help you regarding the cell limitations.
Is this a bug, or is it supposed to be so?
So then this is not a bug. However, Cameron Purdy wrote a Knowledge Base article for creating a workaround. It may not blend well with your application but it is worth looking over anyways.
dbakke@srpcs.com
