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Best to way to allow users edit textmerge script
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01078706
Message ID:
01078717
Views:
22
First think that comes to my mind is EditBox and ListBox. In EditBox let the user write His/Her own text, in List box you populate all avalable fields. When user DblClick on listbox field just insert the name with < < and > > in the EditBox at the position of EditBox.SelStart.


>Hi guys,
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>We have a client who sents out email to their contractors when they processed the invoices. And they would like our app to generate email subjects like the example below:
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>Your invoice #1234 has been proccesed on 12/16/2005
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>Naturally, we would like to give the user the power to edit it to suit their needs (because we know what happens when we give a mouse a cooky), so we plan to store a script in a field of our system table, the field is called "gensubject" and the value would be like:
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>Your invoice <<Invoice.number>> has been proccesed on <<date()>>
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>How do I expose this script to the user for editing?
>What kind of interface would be appropriate?
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>How do I let the user enter the script that's between <<>> without complaining about how complicated this is and without mistakes?
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>Has anybody done this before?
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>Any feedback and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing normal about database guys is their tables.
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