At 04:01 PM 14-01-02 +0700, Hianoto Santoso wrote:

>On 14 Jan 2002 at 19:20, Helen Borrie (TeamIBO) wrote:
>
>> >BTW, Jason has set up the easier way to set up Fields Property...
>> >however, is there any plan to do the same thing in Column Attributes
>> >??
>>
>> I'm afraid I don't understand your question...are you using native
>> data access or TDataset-compatible?
>
>Helen,
>
>I am using native data access... When you double-click the object, a window pop up
>and there are several tabs - SQL, Column Attributes, Fields Property, Hints, Params,
>and so forth...
>
>In Fields Property (i.e. Alignment, CharCase), we can click the label right ?? And the
>property for all fields appear.
>
>However, in Column Attributes, there is no such facility... at least, a multi-select
>feature will be great, so we can set the property for several columns at one go.

OK, now I see what you are getting at...

My guess is - probably not. Each of the Fieldsxxx properties supports only one Field attribute (for many columns), whereas the ColumnAttributes provides many attributes for many columns...I think it would colossally cumbersome to try and split those out.

To save repeating work, have you thought about setting these in the IB_Connection? There you can set them globally; and then you only need to set them explicitly in the dataset object if you want something different to your global settings. You can set them at domain-level there, as well...


regards,
Helen Borrie (TeamIBO Support)

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