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Subject: Re: Multi-part field OR selecting multiple fields
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:58:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Phil Trubey) writes:
>
>So ... does anyone know of a PD or commercial XCMD that implements
>a table view.  I envision this XCMD doing one of two things:
>
>- implement a field that allows multiple items of data to be placed in
>  a line such that each item starts at some tab boundary.
>
>OR
>
>- implement a field type that allows more than one field line to be
>  selected at the same time.
>
>Thanks for any info or pointers.
>--
>
If you find anything that does this, please post it.
In the meantime, the way I've done this is to create a transparent
button that covers the width of all (3) fields, and is the height
of a single line. When you want to hilite a "row", you simply set
the topleft, or, rect, or loc of the button so that it's in the
right place, and set its hilite to true.

Here's sample code:

on mouseup
  global currentRow
  put word 2 of the clickline into currentRow
  put (currentRow * the textheight of me) + B
  item 2 of the rect of me - 10 into theVloc
  put item 1 of the rect of me into theHloc
  set the loc of bg btn hiliteRow to theHloc,theVloc
  set the hilite of bg btn hiliteRow to true
end mouseup

You'd then want to add code that would deal with the cutting,copying,
and pasting (i.e. trapping cut and copy so that it puts all 3 pieces
into a global, and paste so that it uses what's in the global, rather
than what's on the clipboard, and puts stuff in the right place.)

hope this helps.

Judy Stern
Instructional Technology Program
UC Berkeley
[e-mail]