x_Dialog Tab Stops

[GGandhi]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

if the apostrophe is giving you a problem then you may want to try
Report for: Mr.Scott Modery
Report for: the administrator above him
this is only a suggestion, I have no knowledge of anything about xml in xdialog.

[Tom Henkel]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

I've got the big gun looking at it. I sent a sample to Selwyn...

[Tom Henkel]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

Stan,

Substitute ` (Grave Accent chr(96)) and see if anyone notices.

I did try that and the dialog displays as anticipated, and yes, it is difficult to know that it is an "`".

I'm still hoping that Selwyn can figure something out.

Tom

[GGandhi]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

would it be possible to use something similar to
virtual list view in learning xdialog listviews where you can specify the alignment of a column to center?

[Tom Henkel]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

G,
I'm not sure what you are getting at. I have centered the columns I want to center.

see the display in post 36.

Tom

[GGandhi]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

oh sorry, I see now.
http://screencast.com/t/1TkddJGB6ar
when I was doing this I must have gotten excited to share with you how I did it.
please ignore me.

[Tom Henkel]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

OK, so here's the code from Selwyn's "more than one way to skin a cat" goodie bag:

Put the "title" inside the dialog body using {title=}

dlg_body = <<%dlg%
{removecomments}
{can_exit=close}
{startup=init}
[COLOR="#FF0000"]{title=__title__}[/COLOR]
{xmargin=0}{ymargin=0}
{stretch=height,width}
{watch=browseObj1.mode_get()!modechange}
{card=230,15BrowseCard_browseObj1};
{stickto=bottom,right}
{justify=right}
;;;
<10&Close!close>;
%dlg%
[COLOR="#FF0000"]dlg_body = stritran(dlg_body,"__title__",dlg_title)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#FF0000"]dlg_title = "ArbitrarilyNamedTitleWithNoSingleQuote"[/COLOR]
ui_dlg_box(dlg_title,dlg_body,dlg_event)

GOOD DIALO.jpg

ALL IS GOOD!

[Raymond Lyons]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

OK, so here's the code from Selwyn's "more than one way to skin a cat" goodie bag:

Put the "title" inside the dialog body using {title=}

dlg_body = <<%dlg%
{removecomments}
{can_exit=close}
{startup=init}
[COLOR="#FF0000"]{title=__title__}[/COLOR]
{xmargin=0}{ymargin=0}
{stretch=height,width}
{watch=browseObj1.mode_get()!modechange}
{card=230,15BrowseCard_browseObj1};
{stickto=bottom,right}
{justify=right}
;;;
<10&Close!close>;
%dlg%
[COLOR="#FF0000"]dlg_body = stritran(dlg_body,"__title__",dlg_title)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="#FF0000"]dlg_title = "ArbitrarilyNamedTitleWithNoSingleQuote"[/COLOR]
ui_dlg_box(dlg_title,dlg_body,dlg_event)

Tom,

Very interesting, and I am glad you finally got what you were after. But for those like me that may be a bit slow on the uptake, it may help to explicitly point out another key part of the code is that your dialog title with the apostrophe must appear somewhere above the stritran that makes the substitution, along with some meaningless title after that (which can't be blank). Obvious, yes, but in trying the code you provided I had a heck of time getting a desired result until the obvious suddenly became obvious!!!

Something like this:

dlg_title = "Tom's Title"
dlg_body = stritran(dlg_body,"__title__",dlg_title)
dlg_title = "xxxxxxxxxxx"

Raymond Lyons

Edit: I guess the point is, stick this code in any xdialog browse code generated from a standard browse around the ending %dlg% and it should work:

{title=__title__}
%dlg%
dlg_title = "Tom's Title"
dlg_body = stritran(dlg_body,"__StatusArea__",StatusAreaCommand)
dlg_body = stritran(dlg_body,"__title__",dlg_title)
dlg_title = "xx"

[Tom Henkel]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

Ray,

Way back about 50 posts ago, I posted the code that defined the dialog title. This has gone on WAYYY too long, and I could kick myself for not posing the question to Selwyn much earlier. He had an answer for me within 2 hours. Not bad for the head of a major company. (lol)

[MoGrace]

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I don't know if Selwyn mentioned it, but the title command is for the displayed title, it does not have to be the same as the dlg_title. Sort of like an object name and a label, with dlg_title being the object, and title the label.

[MoGrace]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

Ray,

Way back about 50 posts ago, I posted the code that defined the dialog title. This has gone on WAYYY too long, and I could kick myself for not posing the question to Selwyn much earlier. He had an answer for me within 2 hours. Not bad for the head of a major company. (lol)

So how does one approach Selwyn with a question? I was thinking a curtsey might be in order...

[Tom Henkel]

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Robin,

Selwyn is very approachable. He obviously has a real passion for the software and definitely cares about his customer's success. I have had many interactions with him over the many years we've been using Alpha software, and ALL of them have been very positive.

This is my original e-mail to him:

Selwyn,

I would like to know if there is a way to have an apostrophe � � � in an xml browse title. The folks at the message board are telling me that I should just word things differently instead of using the apostrophe, but I feel there HAS to be a way to do this. I�m developing a system to replace our paper time-off requests, and one of the pieces of it is for a supervisor or administrator to view (in an xml browse) the time-off requests for a specific supervisor�s department. When I construct the Dialog title with the apostrophe �Time Off Requests for Tom Henkel�s Department�, The defined browse does not appear, but the default browse does. If I remove the apostrophe, the appropriate browse shows. In the code, the offending string is under the �elseif "Supervisor"$vWhich� code.

I�ve included the dialog code and samples of what the dialogs look like with and without the apostrophe in the title.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Tom

[johnkoh]

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Hi All,

I can create the XML Browse and show with xdialog.
xml_invoice_set.jpg

My other problem is that I cannot focus on the "DropDown ListBox" when I selected a product Id from xml browse.
xml_invoice_dropdown.jpg

Does any one know How do I set the focus on it?

[Ray in Capetown]

Re: x_Dialog Tab Stops

By just looking at screenshots ? No

[johnkoh]

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Hi Ray,

How do you get the Parent Id at Child table in xml layout?