Re: [Pythoncard-users] dbbrowser sample - creating widgets at runtime?

[Alex T. <al...@tw...>]

At 14:42 03/09/2004 -0400, Gregory Pi=F1ero wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm looking at the dbrowser sample.  On my computer this is the file:=20
>C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\PythonCard\samples\dbBrowser\dbBrowser.py
>
>So this thing when running seems to know the number of columns in any=20
>table I connect to and then (creates?) that many text boxes to show the=20
>values of each column.  Does anyone know how this would work?  How are the=
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>text boxes created on the fly like that?
>
>I was unable to locate any documentation on this this and I can't see how=
=20
>it does it from the code.

It does it in on_btnBrowse_mouseClick, in dbBrowser.py

It's the "not for the faint-hearted" code around lines 114-128 that do the=
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actual creation on the fly .... but I am living proof that you can=20
copy/cut/paste this and do similar things in your own code without=20
understanding them :-)

-- Alex.


>Thanks,
>
>Greg
>
>
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