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Grid or listbox ?
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02/06/1998 13:24:34
Koos Veel
Gamma Research
Aruba
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Grid or listbox ?
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00104088
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00104088
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Hello,

In FPW2.6 we used to make all our picklists with a browse and used JKey for the incremental search.
We used radiobuttons to change the order of the list from descending to ascending and change the order and number of the fields on the screen (and thus the JKey key) also with radiobuttons, this all very fast and even when the lists was very large no delay could be seen and the list changed quickly on the screen.

Now in VFP we use the Listbox to make a picklist. We do not need JKey anymore because incremental search is built in already. We still can change the order from descending to ascending and order and number of fields on the screen but with larger lists it takes time for the screen to rebuilt (requery).
This can be a problem with some of our large picklists and we ask ourselves:

Should we go back to use the Browse (grid in VFP) and find a way to replace JKey or should we stay with the listbox and avoid using large picklists ? We think ourselves that we should try to make all our applications easy to upgrade to a client/server situation and we think browse is not very client/server so we tend to stay with the listbox only. But what with the large picklists then ?
Is browse really so bad to do nowadays ?

Anybody has some thoughts on this for me ?

Koos Veel.
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