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    #1

    Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

    I know HOW.... ;) BUT.. then again... NOT QUITE...

    I have a browse with 1.000 columns and 1.000 records in it.
    I want a certain image to appear in the cell if the cell has a certain value. I don't think for this question the image nor the value is relevant or important.

    The point is, I know how to do it per column.
    But I am not too eager to do it 1.000 times......... by hand.

    Can it be done automatically?

    You can not just copy and paste the property with help of advanced property copying, because the condition would vary with each column, because the column (=field) needs to be included in the condition. I can not think of a way to do it.

    Would I really need to go through all 1.000 columns by hand
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    Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

    Do you mean the same image and the same field value evry time? Or are their dozens of different images for dozens of diff. field values?
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      #3
      Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

      I'm not understanding what you are trying to do...

      Can you show an image of what you want to accomplish?
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        #4
        Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

        OK, obviously I was not very clear, let me try to explain better....

        In an embedded browse, you can show an image in a row (actually: cell). You can choose for all rows act the same, or each row acts depending on the result of an expression: if field x = "this" then show image "that". Since each column is a field in a browse, this is only valid per column. If you have more columns (more fields) then you need to do this for each column again.

        I can only see how to do this by hand. That is hardly doable.

        I am looking for an automated way, to insert the condition and parameters for showing the image for all columns in the browse, which IS possible for simple browse properties, but is not for this expression. Furthermore, the field name is often included in the expression, so simply copying the expression for Field 1 into Field 2 won't do, because then you would need to still go by hand to all columns to change the fieldname in the expression.

        What I was looking for was something like the functionality of Excel when you copy and paste a formula to another cell and it adjusts the properties itself adhering to the new cell coordinates if you know what I mean.

        I am not sure I was more clear this time......

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          Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

          Originally posted by Peter.Greulich View Post
          Do you mean the same image and the same field value evry time? Or are their dozens of different images for dozens of diff. field values?
          I have a browse, which is meant to be a matrix.
          So: horizontally, you find columns (col1, col2,col3 etc) which are of course actually fields in the table.
          Vertically, you find rows, which are of course records in the table.

          Each "cell" can have a couple of values, or is blank.
          The values are numeric, and such a value could be: 999 (or 888 or a few others, I guess maximum 10 different codes)

          If it is 999, it should show "image 1" instead of 999.
          If it is 888, it should show "image 2" instead of 888.

          I hope I am making some sense....... (scratches his head)

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            Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

            Originally posted by M.Richard View Post
            What I was looking for was something like the functionality of Excel when you copy and paste a formula to another cell and it adjusts the properties itself adhering to the new cell coordinates if you know what I mean.
            Obviously, you can have a column with a conditional expression showing an image. Since you have only 10-codes, but a 1000 records, it's not too much of a big deal to set up that conditional once. But to dynamically repeat it for additional columns (fields), I don't think Alpha provides a way to do a copy like that. It would be useful to have a copy command for grids too. But there ain't.
            Peter
            AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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              Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

              You do not have a 1000 column.

              If I remember correctly, the max number of fields in alpha is 500 or thereabout, but regardless of how many and assuming you have a "lot of fields", what you are trying to do in essence is this:

              Make each one of these fields a calculated field to show a certain image based on a certain expression. So, what you are trying to do is, as one option, in the field rules turn each one of these to a calculated field then write the expression for that field.

              Sure, it would be quite laborious to do it manually, but you could write a script to do that. You know you can:
              1-Enumerate the fields in a table
              2-Set field rules with xbasic.

              But I wouldn't haste to write the script. Assuming you write one, I am not sure how are you going to:
              1-Present that to the user? There is simply no screen wide enough to accommodate that many images, unless you are talking about quantum images.

              2-Even if you have a 60-inch screen, they don't have enough pixels

              3-And if they have the pixels, I don't have a field of vision wide enough to encompass it

              4-And if I do, your hard drive and/or your RAM might struggle very hard with 1,000,000 images (1000X1000)

              5-And if your RAM and/or hard drive oblige, alpha won't oblige with a 1,000,000 expressions

              What is the application for?

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                Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
                You do not have a 1000 column.

                If I remember correctly, the max number of fields in alpha is 500 or thereabout, but regardless of how many and assuming you have a "lot of fields", what you are trying to do in essence is this:

                Make each one of these fields a calculated field to show a certain image based on a certain expression. So, what you are trying to do is, as one option, in the field rules turn each one of these to a calculated field then write the expression for that field.

                Sure, it would be quite laborious to do it manually, but you could write a script to do that. You know you can:
                1-Enumerate the fields in a table
                2-Set field rules with xbasic.

                But I wouldn't haste to write the script. Assuming you write one, I am not sure how are you going to:
                1-Present that to the user? There is simply no screen wide enough to accommodate that many images, unless you are talking about quantum images.

                2-Even if you have a 60-inch screen, they don't have enough pixels

                3-And if they have the pixels, I don't have a field of vision wide enough to encompass it

                4-And if I do, your hard drive and/or your RAM might struggle very hard with 1,000,000 images (1000X1000)

                5-And if your RAM and/or hard drive oblige, alpha won't oblige with a 1,000,000 expressions

                What is the application for?
                Hi Gabriel!

                Well, I hate to contradict you, but the embedded browse on the forum DOES show the 1.000 columns.... so, it CAN (v9) obviously handle 1.000 fields....

                What I am trying to do is create a MAP. Where each "cell" represents a place on the map. Look at it as a map of 1.000 villages horizontally and 1.000 villages vertically.
                Each village is represented by an image like a green ball if the image has value x and a red ball if the image has value y.

                You go from the assumption that I would need to see all 1.000*1.000 cells in one view..... that, is not the case!

                The browse gives the opportunity to slide horizontally and vertically so that only discloses a part of the map as you slide along the browse.

                I know you can create the fields as calculated, but with what kind of expression would you make an image appear if the value would be lets say 999?

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                  Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                  Richard:
                  Are you saying 1.000 or 1,000?
                  The most my screen resolution will go to is 1024x768.
                  I understand there are TV's with 3840�2160 but haven't heard of any monitors that go that high.

                  My point is, even if this dot is 2x2 Pixels, you will need a minimum of 2000 X 2000 resolution. Obviously, you need a whole lot more since these images are not contiguous. Do you have that much resolution?

                  Put an image of 2x2 pixels on our monitor and see how it looks.

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                    #10
                    Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                    Sorry, Gabriel, but I think you did not read my answer completely..... it contained these sentences:

                    You go from the assumption that I would need to see all 1.000*1.000 cells in one view..... that, is not the case!

                    The browse gives the opportunity to slide horizontally and vertically so that only discloses a part of the map as you slide along the browse.
                    There is no need to see all "cells" completely and at once in the one view, hence, your concerns about the resolution are not quite relevant in this case?

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                      #11
                      Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                      Richard:
                      I did read your response. Sliding back and forth DOES NOT increase the number of screen pixels.

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                        #12
                        Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                        Originally posted by G Gabriel View Post
                        Richard:
                        I did read your response. Sliding back and forth DOES NOT increase the number of screen pixels.
                        No, sliding back and forth does not increase the number of screen pixels, but, at the same time, it reduces the number of screen pixels you would need otherwise in other to display the complete matrix.......

                        If you go to Google Maps, you don't need a screen as wide as 4x4 meters in order to show the whole world either :) you just view a piece of it.... so it is with this matrix.

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                          #13
                          Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                          Are you talking about a geographic map?
                          Last edited by G Gabriel; 03-26-2010, 05:44 PM.

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                            #14
                            Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                            Yes, this is a geographic map, but a virtual one, it is not an existing geographic situation. Otherwise the road to Google Maps would have been easy.

                            How again would you accomplish the automatic showing of the image with help of the calculated field in the field rules? Because I believed that was what you are heading for in terms of solution?
                            I can not see quite how this could be done?

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                              #15
                              Re: Browse Cell Image ?? HOW??

                              I am still trying to understand what you are trying to do. If it is a geographic map, for instance a map of the US, how are you going to put it in the browse?
                              Or are you simply talking about a "Matrix" not a "Map"?
                              How you do it depends on what you want to achieve.

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