A new look for an old interface

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Jon Gilbey

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Hi
I hope someone can help - I'm looking for some way of improving on the sad drab boring old browser that you get with OE10/Progress 9/ Progress 8 even - (they're all the same design).

What I'm looking for is to produce something like a VB datagrid (although my expertise in this area is questionable).

Something a bit like this:

screenprint.jpg


2 major wonderful improvements I'd like to point out:
a) the column titles may have icons in them (although this is not essential)
b) the data in the browser may be grouped by a user selected column - this IS essential.

Note that when the data is grouped it looks a bit like this:

screenprint2.jpg


I don't want to access the data via an ODBC driver, and I'm not about to learn the guts of .Net.

Any other suggestions would be wonderful so if you've got any ideas I would be very grateful.
Thanks
Jon
 
Thanks Joey

I did look at that stuff some time back and at the time, it seemed like it had a good basis but was lacking enough documentation - now having reviewed it I think it may just be the direction I'm looking for.

I'll pursue this a while and see where it leads, thanks again :)
 
The Progress browse widget is by far one of the strength;s of the language /ADE. There a re number of integratable active-x available for download, though the PSC widget is highly advanced in itself. There are a lot of other issues with additional components like the data src issue. PSC handles this encapsulated within the 4GL/ABL
 
The codejock DataGrid does exactly what you are looking for. The codejock suite is what is recommended in the doc mentionned above.
 
It's also worth noting that native .NET UI support in ABL ...is on it's way.

I don't know what the last word from Exchange on when that will be, and they're probably not in a rush to volunteer any deadlines, but it should be coming along.
 
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