Go for it Geoff. Sounds like some worthy enhancements. As I recall now,
someone did make those changes and sent them to me.

Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...>
To: <IBObjects@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Problem with IB_LocateEditEnh


> > I think Geoff made the more correct design decision than I did.
>
> I am pretty sure that your control originally operated the same way as
> mine (because I seem to remember that I pretty much just copied what
> you had :-). So either you were asked to update it sometime ago, or
> you were sent an update and missed the implication.
>
>
> > The control should not serve a dual purpose of allowing editing
> > and inserting to be done. I agree that it should show the current
> > data that is selected but that is the extent of it.
> >
> > Just my thoughts, feel free to request otherwise.
>
> I must admit to being surprised when I saw this use. However now that
> I have seen it used this way it makes me wonder if it can be made to
> work fully. It seems to me that (due to the tiny amount of code in
> the control) it would be almost as easy to make it fully functional in
> insert/edit (and maybe search) modes as it would be to disable the
> control in these modes. (Obviously it will never be able to be used
> to automatically instigate edit/insert mode.)
>
> As Nick suggested, it would be best setup with property control to
> make it easy for a developer to select how the control operates.
>
> If you are happy for me to try I will do so. I cannot see that we
> will break anyones code, since it half-works at the moment.
>
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
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