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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:36:00 EST
- Sender: Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum <WIN3-L@UICVM.BITNET>
- From: Guy Cox <cox@SOFTWARE.ORG>
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Dialog Boxes
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- Dear Netters,
-
- I've allready posted this question few days ago but I've not received an answer
- yet. So I try again ...
-
- Here is my problem.
-
- I'd like to find a mean to allow an end-user (in this case a physician or a
- nurse) to dynamicaly create some kind of simplified dialog boxes, with defined
- objects (ako custom controls : filtered edit-box, combos, ...). Each dialog box
- is linked to a corresponding printed form.
-
- These dialog boxes should be used later to enter data in a relational data
- base and eventualy to print the associated formulary.
-
- I don't want to "hard code" all these dialog boxes in my application because :
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- (1) each hospital uses approximatively 800 types of printed forms. These forms
- are not standardized and may change from hospital X to hospital Y;
- (2) the template and the data associated to a printed form may change with
- time;
- (3) new types of printed forms may be created at any time by the hospital's
- administration;
-
- So, I'd like to find a way of storing the definition of a dialogbox (build with
- some specialized tools) into the database (perhaps using BLOBS) and dynamicaly
- interpret it at load time. Some controls in the dialog box should be linked to
- fields in the database.
-
- If some of you has allready resolved a similar problem, I'd like to have his
- comments and advices.
-
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-
-
- Sounds like a job for Objectvision (Borland). I do not know if export restrictio
- ns apply.
-