Re: Leaving records locked. was(Re: Message line: Another approach?)

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great article Jon.  I like the idea of the array for the data structure! 
  Much better than what I have been doing.

One other practice I have adopted with subfiles is to focus on making 
them entirely mousable, which means no option field.  Each subfile row 
is 75 or 125 characters long and is populated with a datastructure with 
the edited data to be displayed.  The advantage is that each subfile row 
can be a check box field (with no visible check box) and thus one can 
select/unselect  1 to many rows then process each selected row, one 
after the other.  Because the option field options have been moved to 
the details screen one can still process edit, copy, delete, and refresh 
easily. Add filters, sortable columns, and a scroll bar and suddenly the 
1980s green screen has modern function and patterns.   Plus, once all 
sorted out, it really is about as simple a complete subfile process as I 
have ever seen.

Guess it's time to re-write my 2015 demo 
<http://www.martinvt.com/SQL_-simple-/SQL_Simple_Subfile/sql_simple_subfile.html> 
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On 2/2/2020 10:48 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
> I documented the latest incarnation of the standard technique I have been using for many years here:https://www.itjungle.com/2015/03/03/fhg030315-story01/