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    Browse Selected Row color does not appear to work

    Browse Selected Row color property does not appear to work

    I have updated A5V9 to Build 2077, System Add-Ins to Build 3259, last updated 03/07/09.

    I have defined the following for my embedded browse’s row selector colors:

    Row selector: Blue
    Selected: Red
    Focused: Green

    As shown in screen 1 below, when the browse is first opened the focus is on the first record and its color is correctly displayed as Green. All the other rows are correctly displayed as Blue.

    When I click on the second row in the browse, the selector button does not turn Red, but changes to Green. What do I need to do to change the color of the row’s button to Red, or is this a bug?

    Has anyone else had this problem?

    Bob McGaffic
    Pittsburgh, PA
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    Re: Browse Selected Row color does not appear to work

    Attached is a zipped file of a single table and a single browse that demonstrates the problem. Could someone please open up the form, click on a row and confirm that the selector "button" is not changing to RED as specified.

    Thanks,

    Bob McGaffic
    Pittsburgh, PA

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      Re: Browse Selected Row color does not appear to work

      Bob

      I don't have V9 so if the selected property of the row selector changed in V9 then disregard

      However, it would seem that the row selector is working properly. When the browse opens the first record in the browse has focus and therefore the row selector is green, if you cursor down a row, that row now has focus and the row selector is green. If you hold down the shift key and then drag the cursor down the browse, the row selector will turn red for those rows that have been selected but do not have focus. If you read the definition of the selected color property (see the first thumbnail) it tells you just that - so I guess there is confusion as to what selected means and what focused means.

      So I would say that the row selector color is working just as was intended - but I have been wrong before.


      Tom Baker

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        Re: Browse Selected Row color does not appear to work

        Tom,

        I could not find clear documentation on this issue.

        I followed your suggestion and found it works, but A5's design is not that used by commercial ActiveX and .net grid controls. Bummer!

        To me, clicking on the "button" on the left of the browse means selecting that row. This is the way other commercial browse controls work.

        Commercial controls typically behave like this:
        Using your arrow keys or page up/down keys repositions that cursor and invokes the Focused color.
        Using the mouse click, should invoke the selected color

        Did you notice that in the background color of the line in my A5 example changed to pale yellow?

        If the background color of the row changes color when the "button" is clicked, it is unreasonable to expect that the row "button" color would follow the same convention.

        Note that in the screenprint of a commercial grid control below, both the "button" color and the row background color change when the row is selected. This behavior works whether selecting multiple lines or a single line. I was hoping that with all the rewrite effort Alpha has expended on its browse control, we could have have the same result. Guess not.

        In the example below, the selection was a simple single mouse click, no need to use Shift or Ctrl keys to select a row. Simple, easy, intuitive.

        Thanks again for the clarification.

        Bob McGaffic
        Pittsburgh

        Bob McGaffic
        Pittsburgh
        Last edited by rmcgaffic; 03-16-2009, 08:14 PM.

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          Re: Browse Selected Row color does not appear to work

          Bob

          I can see where you are coming from - but I guess it is alpha definition of selected and focused. I would have to agree with you that in general terms, when the browse opened the first row of the browse would have focus and therefore would be green. Then just by clicking on the row selector of the next row should not give focus to that row, the row selector should then be red - and then when you click in the column, you are then at that time giving focus to that row. That is just a logical assumption but evidently the term selected in this case is for multiple selections.

          I can follow the logic for selected and multiple selections and the row selector would show red, but then the final stop of the cursor, that row would then have focus and it would be green - you would think that should be red too.

          I do know that I have played around with the row colors and selector colors and somehow have gotten something that looked good - but it took a long time of trial and error - which should not be the case. Because of that oddity, I have some pretty bland browses in my apps since I don't want to take the time (lazy) to try and try again.

          But I guess I'm going to say that Alpha would not recognize this as a bug - poor design on there part -- MAYBE --, but working the way it should. Logical or not.

          Sorry I couldn't be more of a help.

          Tom Baker

          Edit. I was typing my reply while you were editing your post and did not see the edit until just now.
          Last edited by Tbaker; 03-16-2009, 08:37 PM. Reason: Was typing while you were editing your last post

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            Re: Browse Selected Row color does not appear to work

            Tom,

            Isn't it interesting that Alpha software copies the tab appearance of Excel spreadsheets, but doesn't allow developers to adopt the spreadsheet's simple convention of changing the color BOTH of a row selector "button" and the row background color when a row selector is clicked on to select it.

            This is the behavior that is almost instinctive to zillions of users.

            Wouldn't it be nice if Alpha could accomodate such a common idiom?

            Note that I did not press Ctrl or Shift to select the row below in an Excel spreadsheet.

            Bob McGaffic
            Pittsburgh, PA

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