Category: wxFileManager
Predictive Input, Type Ahead Lookup, or whatever you want to call it, it is one of the holy grails of a good User experience. Over the years I have used several approaches to achieve it. Today we will look at using the Assisted Input functions of WL along with the wxFileManager. BTW, There is also … Continue reading Assisted Input + wxFileManager = The predictive input you have been looking for?
One of our clients asked for some assistance with adding a text field to a report that autogrows with the amount of text to print. I figured it would be a good time to also include some basics of creating reports, especially when working for the wxFileManager In the Create a Report Wizard, I start … Continue reading Reports – Autogrow Text + Some wxFileManager Basics
One of the members of our Facebook group was asking for some assistance summing the arrays of the wxFileManager classes, so I decided to put this primer together. Let's go with a typical example, a Parent/Child relationship between OrderHeader and OrderDetail. First, the header record class so that it includes the child manager class. We … Continue reading Using Class Properties for Totals
These two WL features may be the poorest documented features in WL. Go ahead I dare you to go find the doucumentation for either one. But never fear Uncle Pete is going to take a few minutes to give you a few pointers. Serialize Let's talk about Serialize first. The first issue is Serialize is … Continue reading Serialize, Mapping, Bears OH! MY!
One of the points of the FileManager classes is they give you the same basic features as standard file access. But then can be extended to handle additional features and functions. I realized I have not written an article covering the basic file access functions and how to extend them so it seems like a … Continue reading File Manager Primer – Deleting Records
The mapping attribute is probably one of those features that many folks don't know about. It doesn't even get a lot of attention in the documentation, but it is a really handy feature that has saved my bacon more than once. Before we can talk about the mapping attribute we need to first talk about … Continue reading Mapping Attribute and Class Properties
Today we are going to discuss a feature that technically isn't part of the FileManager classes but demonstrates how you can tweak and extend them without change their core functionality, all thanks to the magic of OOP. Often on browses I like to include a generic search edit control that search multiple fields, so the … Continue reading Extending the FileManager Classes for a Generic Search on Browses
For every table in your Analysis you need 2 classes a record class (a single record) and a Manager class (which manages the actual file access and hold a collection of records). Today we are going to talk about creating the Manager Class, which is relatively painless thanks to a couple of code bricks we … Continue reading FileManager Primer – Creating the Manager Class
Now that we got through the some basics of the FileManager classes in the articles FileManger Primer – Adding Lookups and FileManager Primer – Simple Browse/Form, we can move on the the "good" stuff. Child management is something Andy and I worked on quite a while to perfect, and it really opens you eyes to what the … Continue reading FileManager Primer – Child Management
We have a number of videos, articles, example projects, you name it covering the FileManager Classes. What I will be attempting to do with this series of blog articles is breaking down some of the features of the Filemanager Classes include bite size chunks. This is intended for folks that have already made it past … Continue reading FileManager Primer – Simple Browse/Form
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