In version 3.6.Dg I have noticed that when using Mult-Select (Ctrl+left
mouse) with the defalt settings of ib_grid will cause the text to turn white
and the backound yellow making it quite un-readable.
Any Ideas?
TIA
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Worboys [mailto:geoff@...]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:32 PM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBO] multi-select

> i want to copy records(more then one, but not all) from one
> ib_grid into another one that looks on a different table.
> i've found the onmultiselect-method in the ib_query but
> couldn't find out how to use it.

OnMultiSelect is called when SelectAll or SelectRange is called for
the query. Which will happen on a grid when you have IndicateSelected
set to true and the user hold the Shift (or Ctrl+Shift for all) key
down while left clicking (to select) or right clicking (to unselect) a
range of records.

However I suspect this is not what you are specifically looking for...

TIB_Query has an array property Selected[] which allows you to
set/detect whether a particular row (by row number) has been selected.
It also has a method SelectedBookmarks that allows you to a fill a
string list with bookmarks of all records that were selected. eg.

var
strs: TStringList
begin
strs := TStringList.Create;
try
IB_Query.SelectedBookmarks( strs );
<do something with the list>
finally
strs.Free;
end;
end;


In your instance, wanting to copy records from one dataset to another,
I imagine something like...

for i := 0 to strs.Count - 1 do
begin
// move the source dataset buffer position
// to the specific record for copying
IB_Query.BufferBookmark := strs[i];
// then setup the copy
DestinQuery.Insert;
<copy required fields>
DestinQuery.Post;
end;


If there is likely to be a large number of records, you may be better
off performing the insert using a separate DSQL component setup
specifically to insert using parameters, and then refresh the
destinquery when all the inserts are done.

HTH

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing




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