Minor problem with bBrowser Column headings

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:59 am

Hi all, I have a minor, but annoying problem with bBrowser column headings in ONE instance of the bBrowser.I use three bBrowsers in my app,two display properly as shown in the "Column labled correctly" image attached, but the one that is used the most (PostInit and Init code in attached PDF) displays wrongly - see "Columns labled incorrectly" image also attached. Where am I going wrong please?

ic2 · Post by **ic2** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:10 am

Famous VO Guru Geoff Schaller (he's doing fine btw, I called him 2 weeks ago) would have said:

"Show us some code"

And if you also upload a bigger picture (these are hardly visible) we may be able to see what's wrong.
So please upload the code for the correct and the incorrect bBrowser.

Dick

Dick

BiggyRat · Post by **BiggyRat** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:24 am

The code is there in the pdf file...I'm not sure what else I can post. The 2 pictures are fine here. I've uploaded them 4 times.They are both 1661*294 pixels. This site must be shrinking them.

: Columns labled incorrectly.JPG (34.31 KiB) Viewed 332 times

: Columns labled correctly.JPG (38.12 KiB) Viewed 332 times

BiggyRat · Post by **BiggyRat** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:37 am

Lets try the same files as a zip...

robert · Post by **robert** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:38 am

Jeff,

Your postinit code manipulates SetDateFormat() and SetCentury(). That is global state that you should NOT change when opening a window but usually only once at startup of your app.
I remember a discussion a few weeks ago about date display.
It is this kind of code that can and will cause problems.

W.r.t. the column headers: this bBrowser uses a standard DbServer. This server does not have description captions for the fields. My guess is that the other window uses a Designed server where you have added captions to the fields / fieldspecs.

Robert

BiggyRat · Post by **BiggyRat** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:00 pm

Hi Robert, ok, I'll ditch that code, but it's in the other 2 also. This browser was the original bBrower I created. The other two are literal clones of this one. They work, this one doesn't. That's what has me stuffed.

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:40 pm

Jeff,

BiggyRat wrote:Hi Robert, ok, I'll ditch that code, but it's in the other 2 also. This browser was the original bBrower I created. The other two are literal clones of this one. They work, this one doesn't. That's what has me stuffed.

Are you sure the others that work don't have somewhere a bDataColumn:Caption assignment and this one not?

BiggyRat · Post by **BiggyRat** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 12:55 pm

Yes Sir, absolutely. They all got their column titles from their Fieldspecs. If there's a manual way of doing it, I'm all ears... and eyes! ?

lumberjack · Post by **lumberjack** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:00 pm

BiggyRat wrote:Yes Sir, absolutely. They all got their column titles from their Fieldspecs. If there's a manual way of doing it, I'm all ears... and eyes! ?

The bDataColumns all have a Caption property that you can ACCESS/ASSIGN so no rocket science:

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self:oDCbBrowser1:GetColumn(#JobDate):Caption := "My Job Date Caption"

robert · Post by **robert** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 1:07 pm

Jeff,
So the difference is that one window has a plain DbServer{} and the others a server where fields have been decorated with FieldSpecs. That is what I already thought and suggested.

Robert

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