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So I just played around with a polyGrid. Nice looking, and I answered my own question, they are in between a table field and a DG; the widget API is very friendly. I will consider them the next time I need anything like it. I am less outraged now than a couple of hours ago, except for Taco Bell. Craig

Stam.

the developer they purchased this from... FerrusLogic?).

I had no idea (some?) widgets were not home grown. What other widgets come from Taco Bell?

Craig

Klaus (and Stam or anyone)... set the pgDeleteRow of widget "pgDetails" to theLine I have never used a widget. But is it true that one can simply refer to a widget by name when setting a property that likely only makes sense to a certain type of widget? You cannot dispatch "deleteLine" to a polygrid...

Thanks for that, Stam. It still seems odd to me that a widget, of any kind, strays so far from "standard" LC thinking. Maybe there are performance benefits? Anyway, can you tell me briefly what a polyGrid does that either a table field or a dataGrid does not? Does it lie in the middle of those two i...

This makes no sense to me at all. If a polygrid requires that a property of its lines be set to "delete", then what happens if one wants to put something back into that line? Do I assume you set that property back to "false", and THEN place the new data into the line? Oh, wait, I see. I bet you set ...

It is true that LC does not run as quickly as other lower level languages. But as a benchmark, consider this code: on mouseUp put the ticks into tStartTime --This puts a system time stamp (the "ticks") into a variable I just created, "tStartTime" put 0 into tCounter -- put a zero into another variab...

Oliver. Make an address book stack using a separate card for each person. That will take time, and will likely not be pretty. Do not worry about pretty. Yet. Now embellish it with gadgetry, sorting, finding, adding attributes to each entry so that you can isolate, say, family members or people you d...

Stam makes two valid points: 1- The built-in tools have their own learning curve apart from "basic" LC, but are already designed and optimized to do such tasks. That makes sense. 2- Rolling your own is certainly workable, more fun, and a far better learning tool, since you will be working with LC "i...

Oliver. It sounds like LC is perfect for you. Do try it. Ask your questions here; we all race to answer first and best. I am fond of telling new users to build an address book, simple game or any sort of calculator. The final product will likely be of little value, maybe apart from the address book,...

CAsba. What I meant was something like this. In a button script: on mouseUp put "X" & tab & "Y" & tab & "Z" & return & "A" & tab & "B" & tab & "C" & return & "A" & tab & "S" & tab & "D" into temp set the itemDel to tab repeat for each line tLine in temp put item 2 of tLine & return after columnData ...

CAsba. The "DGText" from a dataGrid is a tab and return delimited dataSet, just like Excel. A table field is just a LC field with certain properties built to emulate a spreadsheet. So if you simply put the DGText into a table field, it will appear already and properly formatted. The table field has ...

CAsba. Your comment: to make each line of fields approximate to columns for the fields. Makes me think you have separate fields for each column, and you have ganged those fields side by side to create the whole package. That will work, but is not the best way to do this. So I ask again about using a...

Stam, Klaus.

Yes, I know.

I was only playing around with the 150 point word "set" in Cossack Pogrom ultra-bold that Klaus posted, trying, I assume, to make his point loud and clear.

Sheesh.

Craig

Klaus, what are you trying to say here?

Set?

Craig

Sparkout.

I have only one plug-in, which contains several shortcut gadgets for my development life.

Never touched the responsive layout library.

Never did a thing with the html Answer dialog.

Thanks for thinking of me. I will go down with my ship.

Craig