Re: [Fxruby-users] collecting data from a FXTable

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

Brett S Hallett wrote:

> I'm have managed to build a FXTable in a form,  load some SQL  and 
> display some data therein, however I cannot figure out how to
> select and move the content of a table entry into a FXText field for 
> later processing.
> 
> The example FXRuby (table.rb) program appears to use Menu 'clicks' to 
> manipulate FXTable data, I wish to access the field directly by
> simply clicking on the desired field -- can this be done ??

I have the feeling I'm misunderstanding your question, but I'll give it 
a shot anyways ;)

When the user clicks on a table cell, the FXTable sends a SEL_COMMAND 
message to its target. So for starters you'd want to catch that:

     theTable.connect(SEL_COMMAND) { |sender, sel, tablePos|
       ... do something in response ...
     }

Now, you say that you want to access the contents of this table cell and 
move (copy?) them into a text field. So you might do this in the handler:

     theTable.connect(SEL_COMMAND) { |sender, sel, tablePos|
       tableItem = theTable.getItem(tablePos.row, tablePos.col)
       aTextField.text = tableItem.text
     }

Hope this helps,

Lyle