I think I already know the answer, but does BB (5.0 or earlier) have any support data binding to fields?
For example, if I have a vector of items, could I bind that to a list (or some field) that will get auto-updated when new data is placed into the vector?
I'm thinking that is something I'd have to write with the ListFieldCallback or it's equivalent in other fields.
Thanks
You could implement this using a homemade observer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern) You could use a custom vector which was aware of the observer if you wanted to. I've done this before and it works.
Unfortunatelly such funcionality is not available right out of the box.
As a starting point to ListField implementaion on BB, take a look at Simple ListField example by peter_strange.
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I'd like to work with data from 2sxc in Excel (for reporting/analysis purposes). Is it possible to create a query that would create a normal looking view with the fields?
Thanks.
Technically this can be done using standard sql, but I can't provide a quick example. You basically need to do pivots. Alternately you could create a html-view and open/link that in excel, this is probably much easier to do.
I'm comming from the java world, and i'd like to know if there's anything that can help me understand the properties of abap development objects.... something like reflection.
Knowing that everything that goes on in ABAP is persisted somewhere inside a database, i'd like to know how would i go about finding out HOW and WHERE an object is saved.
For instance, i'd like to know if there are any functions that enumerate the fields of a structure, or enumerate the properties of an object, or if there's no such thing (but the properties still exist obviously), then what table would be holding those (so that i can create my own functions, or classes)
Also any other discoverability tricks that you know are good... I know this question is a little generic, but since i'm new to abap, i don't really know what to ask :P
Thx, you guys rule.
If you're looking for something like reflection, take a look at RTTI. This cvers the runtime structure of most of the stuff you'll come across. If you want to find out what's going on underneath the surface of the cevelopment tools, just turn on the SQL trace (ST05), open the object in question in an editor and check what tables are accessed...
It is hard to answer your question, maybe it would be easier, if you split it up in multiple questions with some specific task you want.
Some topics I remember (please verify it, I can't check it in the moment if I remember correct):
DDIC-objects are stored in tables with DD*.
Tables (and there properties) are stored in dd02l, dd02t includes the texts. dd03l contains the fields. dd04tl contains the texts of data element.
But it will not help you, if you add something to this tables. The database in background will not get the definitions.
If you want to create some dynmaic magic you may take a look to the field-symbols and assign-command.
Let's say I'm creating some app documentation. In creating a content type for functions, I have a text field for name, a box for a general description, and a couple other basic things. Now I need something for storing arguments to the function. Ideally, I'd like to input these as key-value pairs, or just two related fields, which can then be repeated as many times as needed for the given function. But I can't find any way to accomplish this.
The closest I've gotten is an abandonded field multigroup module that says to wait for CCK3, which hasn't even produced an alpha yet as far as I can tell and whose project page makes no obvious mention of this multi-group functionality. I also checked the CCK issue queue and don't think I saw it in there, either.
Is there a current viable way of doing this I'm not seeing? Viable includes "you're thinking of this the wrong way and do X instead." I've considered using a "Long text and summary" field, but that smells hackish and I don't know if I'd be setting myself up for side-effects. I'm new to Drupal.
There is the http://drupal.org/project/field_collection module but it's not yet ready. Right now you would need to implement your entity alas to do this :( not easy.
Not sure how well it would work, because it currently does a bit more (eg, forces to group pairs into categories and the keys need to be predefined) but you might want to have a look at http://drupal.org/project/properties.
You could create a these key-value fields on their own: create 2 regular fields that that can be added as often as needed.
So you have a x fields for the keys and x for the values. If this is only for you or other people it might work OK but usability wise, it's very ugly.
If you need to extract the fields from the function, to display it properly in a page template, you should propably use a different approach. Write the function with its arguemnts in a CCK field and in the template extract them as needed. The arguments are always (depending on language) in () and the different arguments are seperated by , so splitting them would by pretty easy.
Background: I have a complex search form that stores the query and it's hash in a cache. Once the cache is set, I redirect to something like /searchresults/e6c86fadc7e4b7a2d068932efc9cc358 where that big long string on the end is the md5 hash of my query. I need to make a new argument for views to know what the hash is good for.
The reason for all this hastle is because my original search form is way to complex and has way to many arguments to consider putting them all into the path and expecting to do the filtering with the normal views arguments.
Now for my question. I have been reading views 2 documentation but not figuring out how to accomplish this custom argument. It doesn't seem to me like this should be as hard as it seems to me like it must be. Leaving aside any knowledge of the veiws api, it would seem that all I need is a callback function that will take the argument from the path as it's only argument and return a list of node id's to filter to.
Can anyone point me to a solution or give me some example code?
Thanks for your help! You guys are great.
PS. I am pretty sure that my design is the best I can come up with, lets don't get off my question and into cross checking my design logic if we can help it.
It's not as easy as you would like to make it.
In views, arguments are used to return objects, fx user, node, term, custom object. So you could make some custom code, to get the "query object". That would only be first step. You then need to get the info from the query object. You could either try making a custom relationship bond with the nodes or build your own filter to make the SQL needed. This can quickly become a confusing time sink.
Instead, I would suggest that you use hook_views_query_alter, which will allow you to alter the query. Since you already have the SQL, it's just a matter of checking for the hash, and if it's there, alter the query. Should be a pretty simple thing to do. Only thing that is a bit tricky, is that you have to make the query with the query object that views uses, but it's not that hard to figure out.
I want to use one data source (e.g. an Array) for multiple Datagrids that have different filterFunctions attached and show different columns.
First, I thought I use a very straight forward apporach:
create the Array
create an ArrayCollection for every DataGrid and set the "source" property to the Array
create the DataGrids and set their dataProvider property to its designated ArrayCollection
So now. every ArrayCollection can have its own filterFunction, sort state etc. but there needs to be only one Array with all the data in memory.
Now to the point that totally confused me:
As new items are added to the Array, of course no Events are dispatched and I have to call itemUpdated manually on each of the ArrayCollections. While debugging into the code in order to get a deeper understanding for Flex, I tried to figure out, what this misterious "itemUpdated" method does, especially as it notes in the adobe documentation, that, if no "property" is given (e.g. it is null), a simple "refresh()" will occur.
I did not find any calls to "refresh()" in the whole debugging (and I went down the framework whole as deep as possible (btw: lots of funny comments right in the code :-) )).
The only thing I could find was a CollectionChangeEvent getting dispatched with a PropertyChangeEvent in its "item" property. Which was of the kind "UPDATE" (and not, as I would expect "ADD"). When trying to dispatch that event manually, it never worked (e.g. the datagrid did not update).
I know I have to stick with itemUpdated for the moment, but as the dataprovider can get big (in both dimensions), performance does concern me and I wnat to understand what is going on under the hood.
And as expected, no help from adobe :-(
So a big thanks for everyone who read this whole text.
And an even bigger THANKS to anyone who answers and gives me the slightes hint in how I can get out of the confusion and understand (if thats possible at all) Fles a little better.
finest of all regards,
herbert
You have to call ArrayCollection.refresh() for each of your dataProviders to get the dataGrids to show the new changes to the source array.