Putting info from a text field into a data grid

[wolfkillshepard]

I am making an app in which the user must be able to click a button and at the click of that button text will be taken from an adjacent field (which the user types info into) and that same text would then be pasted into a data grid.

The reason I want a data grid is because the user needs to be able to select the individual line of text which will be organized by name. There will be a field that the user types the desired name of his/her "production" and when the add production button is hit, the information typed into field 1 will then be place into a datagrid. From that datagrid I need those individual "productions" to be selectable. The reason I need them selectable is because on selection of one of those "productions" I want the user to be brought into a details page. I'll provide a screenshot of the card.

[dunbarx]

Hi.

DataGrids are composite structures made from LC objects. Check out:

http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lesson ... With-Data-

I don't use them much, but I have played around with the "dgText" and the "dgData"

Craig Newman

[wolfkillshepard]

Going through that tutorial I am still having trouble achieving my goal

[dunbarx]

The datagrid contents can be thought of as an array of data. This can be manipulated as an actual LiveCode array. But, as in a spreadsheet, it can also be seen as a tab delimited field/return delimited record "array", similar to that of a spreadsheet.

We will make a datagrid, populate it, and get the "dgText", you will extract data in the above format.

Then we will change one of the items in one of the lines of your variable. This means that you have to have the itemdelimiter set to "tab". The line delimiter is already set as "return".

Make two buttons and a datagrid (named "datagrid 1"). Set three columns into your datagrid from the property inspector. In the script of the first button, put

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on mouseUp
   put "a" & tab & "b" & tab & "c" & return & "d" & tab & "e" & tab & "f" into var
   set the dgtext of group "datagrid 1" to var
end mouseUp

in the second button, put

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on mouseUp
   get the dgtext of group "datagrid 1"
   set the itemdel to tab
   put random(99) into item 2 of it
   set the dgtext of group "datagrid 1" to it
end mouseUp

Hit the first button. A little data appears in the grid. Now hit the second a few times. See how the data in the first row of the second column changes? Step through the script line by line. Call back if you need more help getting started.

Craig Newman