Cell formatting in Table Field

[synto]

Hi,
I want to make a horizontal calendar with a table field with 365 cells that user can scroll from 01/01 to 31/12.
Each cell is a day, and the user can click on every cell to display a form, and entering some infos about the choosen day.

I want to color every day according to the information entered.

The table field has a CellFormatting option, but i don't find any information about it.
How can i use it to format every cell of my table ?

[dunbarx]

Hi.

A table field is just a field with certain properties. You can set the backColor (or the textColor) of, say, line 20 of that field to, say, "red".

You may want to change the margin properties so that the backColor completely fills the "cell". Some other tweaks will likely be necessary as well...

So when you display your "form", just set the properties of the line of interest.

Craig

[dunbarx]

I just saw that you wanted a horizontal calendar, so the natural parsing available with lines is not valid. All the data resides in line 1, no?

Have to play with this for a while, but at least you can do odd things like:

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on mouseDown
   put the clickchunk into tChunk
   set the itemDel to tab
  do " set the backColor of tChunk to red"
end mouseDown

But I am not sure there is a way to set the backColor of a "cell". That is, after all, only a region of the field as determined by the tabStop of that "cell". You may have to overlay a blendLeveled control of the "width" of the "cell", located with a bit of math.

Anyone know how to set the backColor of item 3 of a table field, items set to tabs?

Craig

[dunbarx]

On another note, since you mention it, I have no idea what the cellFormat property is. It does not appear in the dictionary.

Sounds interesting, though.

Anyone?

Craig

[bogs]

Anyone know how to set the backColor of item 3 of a table field, items set to tabs?

i'm sure that was a joke but, just in case it wasn't a joke...

The item in your cart is now blue...

[dunbarx]

Boggsie.

No joke. i asked for the entire cell, not just the text within,

Craigsie.

[bogs]

My bad, comprehension hasn't kicked in yet

[Klaus]

Too bad there is few to no documentation for the TABLE field.
The "revtablelibrary" scripts look really promising!

[dunbarx]

So I guess that in order to colorize a full "cell", one would have to overlay, say, a button with a moderate blendLevel, size it and place it by keeping track of the hScroll and calculating the tabStops of the item of interest?

Craig

[synto]

Thanks to all for the help !

Actually, the calendar is contained in a table with only one very long line that the user can scroll.

The idea of using some clickable blendLeveled object in front of the table field is very smart, but i have to check if this will not create too much object on the card. And too much mouseUp script too...

However, perhaps something with the clickchunk keyword with the backcolor property of item X in line Y is a beginning of a solution. I didn't know how to get the day clicked. This is a beginning...

In fact, on this calendar, each day must visually indicate if, for this day, information has been totally entered, partially entered, no information entered (for example, icon, background, anything else... in green, orange, white).
Perhaps i can just display the border of cells in the appropriate color...
Perhaps i can overlay a table field with same structure and with some colorized graphical ASCII text like circle, square,...

[bogs]

Perhaps i can just display the border of cells in the appropriate color...

You can change the borderColor to produce cell borders of a specific color, but you can't do that on a 'per cell' basis, it is all or nothing (far as I can tell).

Don't cross my borders...

[dunbarx]

Hi.

It is certainly possible to do all you want. But because it requires more from a table field than is natively within that field, kluges will be required.

Just one more time (as I mistakenly thought at the top of this thread), much is simplified if the scroll can be vertical instead of horizontal. Is this a possibility at all?

If not, we start kluging.

Craig

[bogs]

OOOoooo, this should be good!
(taking seat in back of class)

[dunbarx]

Try this in the script of a table field where there is data in each "cell" of the first line of that field:

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on mouseDown
   put the clickchunk into tChunk
    do " set the backColor of tChunk to blue"
end mouseDown

Click on one or more "cells". Is this enough of a marker? The choice of color can be selected based on your own criteria.

Craig

[dunbarx]

You don't even need to use the "do" construction:

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on mouseDown
 if the clickText <> "" then  set the backColor of the clickChunk  to "red"
end mouseDown

You need to check the clickText; the problem with this sort of kluge is that the "cell" is not accessible as a whole the way we want it, and it matters when you are trying to pin it down with the clickChunk.

Anyway, is this just too much to ask of a table field? It would be asking more if we follow the path of overlaying tinted controls. This can be done, of course.

craig