how to print a line (row) of a dg table

[stam]

Klaus, what are you trying to say here?

Set?

Craig

Set a property
Put into a variable
Mixing these is recipe for an unhappy life

[dunbarx]

Stam, Klaus.

Yes, I know.

I was only playing around with the 150 point word "set" in Cossack Pogrom ultra-bold that Klaus posted, trying, I assume, to make his point loud and clear.

Sheesh.

Craig

[CAsba]

Jacque,
Yes it would have to be scrolled. Also, only 10 of the 30+ columns would need to be printed - they would be the only visible columns. Currently I'm putting the extracted line data into fields, and adding blank spaces to the fields according to the number of characters in the fields, to make each line of fields approximate to columns for the fields. Hope that makes sense.

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

Your comment:

to make each line of fields approximate to columns for the fields.

Makes me think you have separate fields for each column, and you have ganged those fields side by side to create the whole package. That will work, but is not the best way to do this. So I ask again about using a single table field to do the job.

If not, then is it that you have a field that contains several lines, and the lengths of the contents of those lines are not uniform? But if the field is wide enough to show the longest line, why do you need to pad the others? They will fit.

Why not post a screenshot of what you have? I suspect you are doing a lot more work than you need to.

Craig

[CAsba]

Hi Craig,
I took a look at tablefield, but I was not able to understand it, how to get data into it programmatically. I never heard of it before, (I am a beginner !)

[bobcole]

CAsba:
I recommend a report. It is much easier and highly flexible.
The only downside is that you need to write a simple template file (html).

Here is a sample:

The button "Print Line" will print a report of the items on the line in your web browser.

The LiveCode program and the report template are included in this zip file.
The code is included in the zip file.

Print Sampler.zip

(9.25 KiB) Downloaded 51 times

Bob

[stam]

Hi Craig,
I took a look at tablefield, but I was not able to understand it, how to get data into it programmatically. I never heard of it before, (I am a beginner !)

A tableField is just a normal field with the difference that it treats tab-separated-values (TSV) as spreadsheet data.
If data items (ie columns) are separated by a tab, each item will be in its own cell. You can adjust the widths of columns with the tabstops. The end of the row/record is defined by a return, so your cells must not contain a return (not really a problem for your example).
Otherwise pretty much the same as any field…

It’s worth learning as the code for it is simple, although it doesn’t have many features like the data grid it has its uses…

So just put tab-separated data into the field and it will populate…
You can test this easily for example with the dgText of a datagrid since that is in TSV format:

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Put the dgText of group “data grid” into field “myTableField”

[CAsba]

Hi Stam,
#Thanks for that. How would I put only SOME of the datagrid columns into the tablefield ?

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

The "DGText" from a dataGrid is a tab and return delimited dataSet, just like Excel. A table field is just a LC field with certain properties built to emulate a spreadsheet. So if you simply put the DGText into a table field, it will appear already and properly formatted. The table field has "tabStop" as its main distinguishing property. Though all fields have this, the table field appears as a spreadsheet-like control, and the vertical dividers track the tabStop settings.

Make a table field, and:

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   put "X" & tab & "Y" & tab & "Z" & return & "A" & tab & "B" & tab & "C" into fld "yourTableField"

See? That data appears in the table field just like in a spreadsheet. The tabStops determine the "width" of the columns.

Craig

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

What I meant was something like this. In a button script:

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on mouseUp
   put "X" & tab & "Y" & tab & "Z" & return & "A" & tab & "B" & tab & "C" & return & "A" & tab & "S" & tab & "D" into temp
   
   set the itemDel to tab
   repeat for each line tLine in temp  
      put item 2 of tLine & return after columnData
   end repeat
   put columnData into fld 1
end mouseUp

You can see that the second item of each line, which corresponds to the data in the second "column" of your dataSet appears in the field.

Craig

[CAsba]

Thanks for that Craig, but
how do I 'make a tablefield' ?

[stam]

Thanks for that Craig, but
how do I 'make a tablefield' ?

[CAsba]

Many thanks Stam

[stam]

The image above shows how you can just added to a card as a convenience.
But this is just a normal text field. Any text field can do this, just go to the 'table' section in the property inspector:

To adjust the widths of the columns you need to set the tabStops (in the property inspector or by code).
Personally I find tabStops a bit confusing, but look at the documentation in the dictionary.

[CAsba]

Thanks all, I've now got a working table field doing the job.