Re: [dabo-users] New/returned user - question about editing/adding data on 'browse' form

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 09:33:13AM -0700, Paul McNett wrote:

> On 10/14/11 8:03 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:

> >

> >> > Where does this have to go in my AppWizard generated code?

> > I'll let Paul handle that question - I haven't worked with AppWizard code in a very long time.

> Code generated by AppWizard is pure Python code. You'd look in the ui/ directory,

> find the class definition of the object in question, and add your callback method and

> the bindEvent() call somewhere, probably in afterInit().

> For example, say I wanted to bind to the KeyDown of the clientname textbox in the

> edit page of FrmClients. I'd edit the file ui/PagEditClients.py, and I'd find the

> clientname definition that looks something like:

> 30 ## Field clients.clientname

> 31 label = dabo.ui.dLabel(self, NameBase="lblclientname",

> 32 Caption=biz.getColCaption("clientname"))

> 33 objectRef = dabo.ui.dTextBox(self, NameBase="clientname",

> 34 DataSource="clients", DataField="clientname",

> 35 ToolTipText=biz.getColToolTip("clientname"),

> 36 HelpText=biz.getColHelpText("clientname"))

> I would add the following line:

> 37 objectRef.bindEvent(dabo.dEvents.KeyDown, self.onKeyDown_clientname)

> And scroll to the bottom of the class definition and add this method:

> 147 def onKeyDown_clientname(self, evt):

> 148 ed = evt.EventData

> 149 key, char = ed["keyCode"], ed["keyChar"]

> 150 print key, char

> 151 if char.lower() == "a":

> 152 evt.stop()

OK, thank you, that's brilliant.

Chris Green

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