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21/06/2001 12:55:45
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00521992
Message ID:
00522020
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>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I'm working on a form, which uses three related view:
>>>
>>>CustomerInfo
>>>      RegionsInfo
>>>          TownsInfo
>>>
>>>I already created all controls for CustomerInfo and RegionsInfo (not that much information here) and now I have to choose, what should I put for Towns info.
>>>
>>>User should be able to select towns for the specific region. When form activates, I want to see towns for the 1st region for this customer (if this is not a new record).
>>>
>>>I'm thinking about multiselect grid by Cetin Basoz, which I need to program a little to save and restore selections.
>>>
>>>What would you suggest?
>>
>>You know I would say upgrade to MoverListXX < bg > but even registered users should wait for download till min(next month , current project ends) < s >
>>If your towns per region are little you can go with a slow control like listbox, MoverList.
>
> Nick has a sample of Movers two, which I haven't studied too close yet. I just noticed, that in this sample it doesn't allow to move multiple records, though he suggested a workaround.
>
>>Your version of Multiselect grid is not suitable for this kind of things as far as I remember its code (apart from some keypress handlings that you already fixed).
>>Cetin
>
>Why not? With little adjustments it would save and restore, no problem. I even already created a quite compilcated class based on this multiselect grid class with ability to save and restore configuration. For this particular application, I'm working right now, this class is overkill.
>
>I just don't know, what would be easier for the user: multiselect grid or Mover class.
>
>Oops, I just remembered, that Nick's sample is based on listboxes, not grid.
>
>There are 368 towns for MA, so I don't think, simple mover would work.

Might work,
I was working with moverlists with over 10K recs at times and realized how could a listbox be slow (just thought computer hung). With MoverListXX worst case is taking 1-2secs (I mean recreation-reloading etc:) And chicks oh dynamic effects for free:)
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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