I thought I read somewhere that in OI10 you can dynamically insert columns into an edittable without having to destroy the control and recreate it with a new structure. Is there such a method?

Cheers, M@

Vernon Systems

Hi M@

Inserting columns into EditTables has always been supported via the INSERTCOL message in previous version of OI.

In v10 we still support that method but I added a new one called INSERTCOLX that supports the v10 options better.

Syntax is:

   insertedPos = exec_Method( edtID, "INSERTCOLX", insertPos, colStruct )

InsertPos can be "-1" to mean "append".

The inserted position is returned or "0" if a failure occurred.

ColStruct is an @fm-delimited dynamic array as per PS_EDITTABLE_EQUATES:

   // INSERT column equates  - structure definition for inserting columns

   //

   // <1>  Header Text      (v9 COLLABEL)

   // <2>  Style            (v9 COLSTYLE)   ETCLS_ styles (or DTCS_ for  v9)

   // <3>  Data Length      (v9 COLCHARS)

   // <4>  Display Width    (v9 COLWIDTH)

   // <5>  Header Style                     ETCHS_ styles

   // <6>  Header Font

   // <7>  Header ToolTip

   // <8>  Cell DropDown List

   // <9>  Cell Font

   // <10> Cell ToolTip

   // <11> Cell CueBanner

   // <12> Cell EditMask (@vm delimited)

   // <13> Cell ValidChars

   // <14> Cell ButtonText/Width (@vm delimited)

The difference between INSERTCOL and INSERTCOLX is that the former expects v9 "DTCS_" styles, while the latter expects v10 "ETCLS_" styles (as per the equates).

If you're prefer to work with arrays rather than style bits you can use an @vm'd array for info for the style (<2>) and headerStyle (<5>) - again these are defined in PS_EDITTABLE_EQUATES.

Cheers,

Carl Pates

Inserting columns into EditTables has always been supported via the INSERTCOL message in previous version of OI.

Thanks Carl!

Gosh, I don't know how I missed this - must be looking at some very old code..

Cheers, M@

Vernon Systems

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