.net equivelent of a listbox with the moverbar enabled

[fluteplr]

This is more of a .net question but I am hoping someone who does vfp and .net will have an answer for this. I am looking for a .net control (commercial 3rd party is fine) that has the same functionality as a VFP listbox with the mover bars turned on. We are doing a conversion and we use the VFP listbox to allow the users to set a custom sort order for short lists. For example setting a list of purchases in priority order.

 

[craigber]

The VFP "mover" list box is an odd-ball component. I've never seen any other that works the same. What I have seen is two command buttons, one for "move up", the other for "move down" placed below the list box. The buttons move the selected item up or down in the list.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual FoxPro MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com

Author, CrysDev: A Developer's Guide to Integrating Crystal Reports"

 

[fluteplr]

Hi Craig, its Jacob. Yeah I was coming to that conclusion. It was just so handy for having users reorder short lists that I was hoping someone had done it. Thanks.

Jay

 

[Mike Lewis]

Jay,

Not only do I agree with Craig, but I would add that I've never considered the VFP-style mover to be particularly friendly or intuitive.

I would recommend that you either create, or look for, a different style of movable listbox, such as one with up and down buttons like what Craig described. (There are many examples of this in Crystal Reports, and most users seem to find it intuitive.)

Mike


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My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

fluteplr

I use a grid with a listbox appearance combined with a command button group, cmdTop, cmdUp, cmdDown and cmdBottom, arranged vertically alongside the grid.

The command button group allows you to move a record to top, up, down or bottom.

The code for a command button is based on the following snippit for cmdUp

[COLOR=blue]SKIP -1 IN (lcAlias)
SCATTER NAME loNext

SKIP 1 IN (lcAlias)
SCATTER NAME loThis

GATHER NAME loNext

SKIP -1 IN (lcAlias)
GATHER NAME loThis[/color]

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Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk

 

[fluteplr]

thanks but you missed the .net part

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

We are doing a conversion and we use the VFP listbox to allow the users to set a custom sort order for short lists.

I assumed you would be equally able to use a grid and command buttons if you can't find a .NET solution.

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Chris
PDFcommander.com
motrac.co.uk