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[Raymond175]

Hey guys...

For now I stuck without tables in VDS 3.51... Maybe I'm going to buy 5.1 but for now I've got not the for it

I want to use some sort of table in my program. For now I user the courier font in an list... With spaces I cant get all the text on the rights places, but the problem is that the courier font is too width... I cannot get all my information in my own made "table". Is there someone out here who knows my problem and has made his own solution from it?

I'd like to know...
Raymond


PS: Have you noticed that when you say "Notify me when a reply is posted", that sometimes you won't be notified? Strange...

[FreezingFire]

[Mac]

You can create a "table" of sorts using multiple EDIT
elements. If you name them by rows and columns
(R1C1, R1C2, etc.) you should be able to create a
common routine to access them as needed.

I don't have code to do this at present, but if you
want to give it a try maybe we can help out.

Cheers, Mac

[Raymond175]

I don't think that is a good way to do it... it CAN be used, you're right, but I've got a music-database with around 10.000 MP3 songs in it, and with edit-elements I cannot scroll that fast like a list-element does.

Thanks for your suggestion anyways.
Raymond

[Raymond175]

Hey FreezingFire,

Sorry I've overlooked your post! I've downloaded the dll and I'll give it a try... I'm making a program for someone else who's going to pay for it, so $10 ain't such a problem... Only I want to know if it's worth it by using it as a demo right now... I hope this functionality is there!

Thanks!
Raymond

[FreezingFire]

The functionality for the VDSLISTS.DLL is actually greater than the functionality
of the VDS 5 tables, etc.

[Raymond175]

It took me quite a while before I got the table working... The border dissapeared for me, and alse when the window lost focus and gained it again, the whole table was gone!

Now I've found what the problem is, I've placed it on top of an TAB, and he doesn't like that very much. The same happens when another window is covering the element and when the window disappears, the whole table is gone! The window has to minimize and maximize again to show the table... But once again... that problem is made by the TAB-element...

I found another problem which can be a bit annoying for the end-user. When I click the first column (with names) and press the first letter I want to search (for example 's'), it jumps to the right spot, but when I press anoter letter (for example 'e'), it does nothing. The control has to lose focus first before it can search again...

Maybe you can fix this in a new version before I buy it? The program I'm making has to be almost perfect...

Thanks
Raymond


PS: Also I have difficulties when I want to retrieve 1 value from the table... When I use @EXTLIST(LIST, ITEM, element) I get a long string with all the columns, but I have to parse this info into seperate vars... How can I do this?

[Skit3000]

Raymond, FreezingFire isn't the developer of the vdslists dll, Tommy Sools is... You can contact him through E-mail: tommy@sools.nl...

[Mac]

[FreezingFire]

You can place the table ontop of a group, which is placed on the tab
element, and it will solve the problem I think.

Indeed, Tommy Sools is the author of this extension.

[Raymond175]

I'm sorry... I've dropped the table thing! I've benchmarked it with 10.000 MP3 listings, but only the loading of the list took 50 seconds. And when I want to filter the list (let's say I only want dance music), it took arround 3 minutes.

The way I do it now (A list with a monospaced font to create a table with additional spaces between the items) I takes arround 2-3 seconds to load the list and arround 4-5 seconds to filter the list... that's quite a difference!

This is the way my table lookes like: