>SNIP
>>
>>In other words, this simple enhancement allows me to type something in Streets column, but use upper(ccode+town+street+...) index. But it was not implemented.
>>Lots of my suggestions were in vain. I'm starting to fill desperate now...
>
>Nadya,
>
>Desperation is not called-for in these instances - you've done your job in proposing valuable things and if they go unimplemented it is not your fault.
>
>The advice would be different on some item where you are certain that *major* improvement/savings/opportunities/etc are to follow, but in these kinds of cases you've done (more than) your job.
>
>Cheers,
>
>JimN

Jim,

The problem is, that I had my version of classes, but we changed our main library since then, so if we want to incorporate these ideas now, it would be a much harder task. Also at home I have version of application, which uses my idea of InGrid enhancement, but I can not ulpoad it at work, since this idea was not implemented. Therefore if I change version at work, I have the older version at home with some enhancements. I proposed lots of suggestions during my work at WarrenGroup and only 25% of them were implemented.

For instance, this is the reply I got on my last idea about InGrid:
I discussed this with Nancy. This seems like a good idea, but we are not going to do it now. One, I do not want to distract Nancy from the other stuff she is doing, and two, if she makes the change, you will feel compelled to 'upgrade' all your apps that might use it and I don't want you to do that now either. I want you to keep focused on the tasks assigned to you for Release 2.

>>> NOSONOV@email.msn.com 05/19/01 01:50PM >>>
Hi Nancy,

I want to expand InGrid functionality. I want to add a new property
cFixedPart. In KeySeek method at the top I'd like to add the following code:

if not empty(this.cFixedPart)
   this.cSearchString=evaluate(this.cFixedPart)+this.cSearchString
endif

This change allows me specify fixed part of combined index to
search. For instance, I have BldMstr table and I want to search by Street. I
will type something in Street column, and I put in cFixedPart
BldMstr.ccode+BldMstr.town. Therefore my search will use Situs index and
find the street, I want. I already implemented this change at home (here I
have a new version of applications, waiting for upload to BioHazard) and
this idea worked perfectly. Attached find the copy of wgcontrols with only
one change in InGrid.KeySeek method. I also changed setting lShowPreview to
.f. and uncommented previously commented line. If this setting is set to
true, you would see chars, which you type, in Column Header in the time of
searching (then header returns back to normal). I don't like this setting to
be default, but it's available.

Thanks in advance.

I know that if something is not implemented, it would never be implemented... At least this is that happened with all my other suggestions. How would you feel in this situation?