Listmagic

[DukeUK]

Very new to rev here so please excuse the daft questions.

Don't know whether anyone is familiar with Listmagic, but it came free with the mega bundle and I've been experimenting with it as well as the normal Datagrids. It is very useful for quickly generating nice looking tables with a set of built in features which do just about everything I need, but theres a few things I''m struggling with.

The first is if I edit (eg delete) some lines in the list, sometimes the headers get lost and up comes header 4, header 5 etc. This doesn't happen all the time and I can't actually work out what I'm doing that makes it happen. Seams almost random but I'm sure its not. Anybody else had a similar problem ?

The second thing is, if I export the contents of a column, it works fine providing there is a value in the first row of the column. If there isn't, an error appears saying “error: could not find column x” Anybody else had this problem or am I doing something wrong somewhere?

What I want to do is to populate the list from a txt file generated by another card, let the user edit the list if necessary and then add the numbers in one of the columns up.

I tried a similar thing with a datagrid and after a fair bit of experimenting I could get that to work OK (although not with all the listmagic functions). With the listmagic, I can get it to populate OK and users can edit it (with the exception of the above problem with the headers) but I can't get it to add a column up for the love of trying. So I tried the LMExtractColumns to put the data into a field and this works OK (apart from the blank first line problem).

Now I'm stuck with how to add all the numbers up in the field.

Anybody got any tips on how to overcome these problems or preferably any ideas on a better way to do this?

[bn]

Duke,
Jim Bufalini from Hawaii does maintenance and support for ListMagic. You can find his e-mail if you go to RevOnline and search for Bufalini. Then select the one stack he has posted and click on his name. This gets you to his profile, you will find his email there.
regards
Bernd

[DukeUK]

Hi Bernd

Many thanks for the contact.

I must be having a blonde moment or something. The name is not clickable in my browser. Might be because I'm not logged in? Can't even find where to register so I can log in. I do wonder about myself sometimes.

I found his email address on a mailing list. I'll post any answers here. I'd quite like get the listmagic working properly because it is pretty good for novices.

Kind regards

[bn]

DukeUK,
you probably have to be logged in for that to work. You should have gotten a registration key for OnRev with your initial registration key for Rev.

regards
Bernd

[DukeUK]

Just a quick update from me.

Jim was very helpful.

Listmagic has been updated and the latest version has overcome the problem I was having.

Brilliant !