A field for Date on DataWindow

[Negator]

Hello all PowerBuilder wizards!

I need to create on my DataWindows some field, in which user can enter a date value. My DataWindow uses an External access.

I made a new Row, created a Column object for it, chose needed EditMask dd/mm/yyyy format. Here is my problem: the field appears, but clicking on it does nothing: it is not editable. What was wrong?

Thank you!
Alexey

 

[pgaec]

check the taborder of the column

 

[Negator]

Thank you!!!!!

P.S. I am a bit shoked... It's hard to understand why the enable state of a control depends on taborder. PowerBuilder is really mysterious.

 

[PowerObject]

Tab-Order (TabSequence) is the ability to tab to a column and set focus to it. It is one of the ways to disable access to a column. Another way to disable access to a column is to set the column's Protect attribute which can be set to behave 'differently' and 'dynamically' for each row depending on expressions. Other window controls have a Tab-Order, too. But datawindow has the nice Protect attribute in addition - alike the friendly DataWindow.ReadOnly attribute which sets the entire datawindow in read-only mode. Again, for Edit-Style columns, there is a DisplayOnly attribute that allows setting focus to a column but the value is display-only for that column (a recommended attribute if all the columns in a row have to be tab-ordered to 0 and row-selection service does not work for that row).

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[Negator]

PowerObject, thank you for your answer!

It is really amazing how different programming tools are! My regular tool is Delphi, where the taborder is "the taborder and nothing more: the place in a queue for tab button". In fact I never used it in Delphi )