Russell,

We would be interested - if you have published this, apologies. The
link would be useful.

We are trying to get the grid to behave like a list view. I.e. we
wish to deselect/select rows, in the normal windows fashion, and then
act on them.

Bookmarks are working fine.


Regards
Chris

PS I am a newbie...

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Russell Belding" <russell@b...>
wrote:

> Despite the problems in TIB_GRID with multiselect of rows it is

possible to

> 1. Detect when many rows have been selected.
> 2. Deselect them and detect when they have been deselected.
> 3. Change a selected row's boolean field and give that value to the

other

> selected rows.
> 4. Change a selected row's value in a embedded TIB_Lookupcombo and

give that

> value to the other selected rows.
> 5. Change a selected row's TDate field and give that value to the

other

> selected rows.
>
> Perhaps there is an example of this published somewhere? If there is
> interest I'll post some more details here.
>
> Regards
>
> Russell
>
> ""Russell Belding"" <russell@b...> wrote in message
> news:as5a8v$6g8$1@......
> > Hello Jason
> > (apology if this appears twice - had trouble connecting )
> > Using IBO4.2Ib.
> >
> > A. TIB_GRID Deselection of multiple rows.
> >
> > After multiple rows are selected in a TIB_Grid, as far as I
> > can tell, the only way to deselect them using the grid interface

is to

> close
> > the form containing the grid.
> >
> > See "Selecting multiple rows in TIB_Grid" comments by Marco (who

gives

> code
> > for selelection) and myself.
> >
> > Rather than inserting code for each grid to deselect would you

suggest a

> > place to put some code to allow "windows standard deselection"?

I am not

> > confident of selecting a good place for this in the IBO code.
> >
> > B. The TIB_Grid OnMultiSelect event
> >
> > This event fires when using Shift+(Right or Left) Mouse click but

not when

> > using Ctrl+(Right or Left) mouse click.
> >
> > If it fire on both I could use the event to update the list of

selected

> > rows.
> > Where should code be placed to repair this?
> >
> > C. Temporary Deselection Code
> >
> > Marco: On my setup multiple rows can be selected using the left

ot right

> > mous click plus (Ctrl or Shift) so the deselection code should be

done

> with
> > either button and should be
> >
> > if ((AButton = mbLeft) or (Abutton=mbRight)) and not ((ssShift

in AShift)

> > or (ssCtrl in
> > AShift)) then
> > ((Sender as TIB_Grid).DataSource.Dataset as
> TIB_Query).SelectAll(False);
> >
> > I am using the ITB_GRID.OnMouseUp event to implement deselection.
> >
> > However the TIB_GRID.OnMouseUp event is not firing when either of
> > Ctrl+RightMouseUp or Shift+RightMouseUp occurs
> > unless the click is done in a fixed column in whish case the

event fires.

> >
> > So the revised code should be used but there is a preference for

the left

> > mouse button in deselecting rows.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Russell
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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