Hello Geoff

You have it. I will first set gnOnEditDoEditClick to false and give some
clue to users to press F2 of click again. Then come back to your suggestion
about a change after beta testing for the package.

Thanks for solving this. Appreciated.

Russell

"Geoff Worboys" <geoff@...> wrote in message
news:531755546.20020106092517@......

> > The looping problem here is caused when AlwaysShowEditor=True.
>
> Well its that and the fact that you have the navigate option
> gnOnEditDoEditClick turned on (from when you were using
> FEditLinkAutoClicked stuff).
>
> That is; gnOnEditDoEditClick simulates a click of the editor button
> when the cell editor control receives focus. When AlwaysShowEditor is
> true then the cell editor control receives focus as soon as the cell
> is selected. When your OnEditButton handler shows a dialog the cell
> loses focus while the dialog is displayed - and then receives focus
> again then the dialog returns.
>
>
> I also tend to turn AlwaysShowEditor on in any grid used to serious
> editing - it can be extremely frustrating always having to hit F2.
>
> The problem you experience with AlwaysShowEditor and
> gnOnEditDoEditClick I also experienced with the memo editor in the
> grid. If you look at the code for
> procedure TIB_CustomGrid.ShowMemoEditor;
>
> you will see the additional lengths that were required to handle the
> situation.
>
>
> In the short term you have only two choices...
>
> 1. Disable gnOnEditDoEditClick
>
> 2. Create your own derivation of IB_Grid and override EditButtonClick
> to do something similar to ShowMemoEditor when your function is
> called.
>
>
> In the longer term I may be able to alter EditButtonClick so that it
> avoids this problem - by moving the specialised code from
> ShowMemoEditor to EditButtonClick. But I suspect that that will take
> some experimenting to get right.
>
>
> hth
>
> --
> Geoff Worboys
> Telesis Computing
>
>
>
>

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