Clarion - Moving to CW6 from CW2

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Moving to CW6 from CW2 - two questions

Don

2004-10-12, 3:55 pm

Folks, after about 10 years of using CW2 for most everything I decided
to take the plunge and move to CW6 since it seemed it had some neat
capabilities CW2 was missing.

Two questions (I'm sure I'll have more):

1. Ordering fields in a form. CW2 had a nice little menu item
in the window editor under "Edit" "Set Control Order" - allowing
me to set the order fields are tabbed in. Can't find this in
CW6, and can't find a reference to ordering fields in the help.
I'm sure its there someplace.. just can't seem to find it.

2. PowerBrowse multiple table layout functionality. One of the reasons
I hesitated in moving from CW2 to a later version was the unavailablity
to have the multiple table layout that PowerBrowse made easy to do..
For those not familiar... PowerBrowse allowed you to have tables
displayed in a multi-tabbed window, where each tab could open the
table in a different key and field display order, ie:

Tab1 - key company, name, address
TABLE: COMPANY | NAME | ADDRESS

Tab2 - key name, company address
TABLE: NAME | COMPANY | ADDRESS

Anyone have any hints on how to do this or an add-in that makes
it easy to do. My users are really used to this sort of display
and I know they won't be happy unless I can give them it.

Thanks in advance. Answers here will be read, but it would be
appreciated it you could also Email me any ideas at:

done@bid_DASH_service.com (you know what to replace the _DASH_ with..)

Thanks again!

Don

Roger Due

2004-10-12, 3:55 pm

Don,
I only started with C5.5, but I think the following might help you.
1. Use the F12 key when you are in the window editor to then change
the order of tabbing. You will notice that the controls are listed in
tab order and can be moved up/down to change the order.
2. When you generate the browse, you can specify that multiple tabs be
present with each tab representing a different key sort order. Another
option you have with C6 is the ability for the user to click on the
column header at runtime to sort up/down on that column.
-- Regards, Roger Due

Don

2004-10-12, 3:55 pm

Roger Due wrote:

> Don,
> I only started with C5.5, but I think the following might help you.
> 1. Use the F12 key when you are in the window editor to then change
> the order of tabbing. You will notice that the controls are listed in
> tab order and can be moved up/down to change the order.
> 2. When you generate the browse, you can specify that multiple tabs be
> present with each tab representing a different key sort order. Another
> option you have with C6 is the ability for the user to click on the
> column header at runtime to sort up/down on that column.
> -- Regards, Roger Due

Roger - thanks! It gave me the hints I needed to solve both items.

F12 works fine for setting the tab-order properties, and it was REALLY
simple to setup the PowerBrowse functionality.. to make it short on how
I did it:

I created a normal browse - for a file with multiple keys. The Wizard
created a tab for each key (which is a good thing).

I then moved the initial browse on the first tab off the tab (although
it wasn't actually ON the tab - it was on the page) and then back ONTO
the tab, and replied YES to the question - move browse to tab.

This now allows only this browse to be viewed when this tab is opened.

I then went to the next indexed tab and created a new browse. I created
the browse so the display order of the fields is what I wanted - roughly
like the key being used.

I also had to go the Window properties - I now saw under TABLE that
there was a second listing for "File Browsing List Box" - which was
blank. I added in the file and key that I wanted to use for the second tab.

Saved it - tried it - it works just fine!

Thanks again for the hint - it got me going in the right direction. Now
I'm going to look at Fuzzy Logic browses :)

Don

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