Why are dgText and dgData not in the Dictionary?

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Why are dgText and dgData not in the Dictionary?

Post by rrBUSS9EE » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:20 pm

Or am I somehow just unable to find them.

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Re: Why are dgText and dgData not in the Dictionary?

Post by Dixie » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:54 pm

AFAIK all the datagrid information is contained in the 'Revolution Datagrid pdf'... maybe it is because it has been created by a third party, namely 'Blue Mango' and did not come out of runRev ... ? you can find it here...
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/d ... -data-grid

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Re: Why are dgText and dgData not in the Dictionary?

Post by rrBUSS9EE » Mon Jun 18, 2012 5:07 pm

Thanks. Don't quite understand why dataGrid related tokens are not in the dictionary though. Seems kind of odd.

I am relatively new to LC… how long have we had dataGrids?

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Re: Why are dgText and dgData not in the Dictionary?

Post by BvG » Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:03 pm

The datagrid was created by Trevor DeVore and his Blue Mango learning. It was shortly sold as an add-on and then incorporated into the LC IDE about 2 years ago. All documentation exists at the lessons site, which's technology is made by Blue Mango Learning.

My guess is that when the deal was made, RunRev did not want to write documentation, so Blue Mango said they would maintain a help system based on their own platform.

Note that the Datagrid is third-party add on. In other words, there's nothing in the datagrid that is not native LC. So you chould replicate the whole thing on your own, using LC, and a lot of time.
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