I’d like something like a “label” in app studio, but one that could hold like a paragraph of info.
I mean something that I, the creator of the app, put in and the user cannot edit it. Again, like a label. Just bigger, with word wrap.
Does that exist?
The hackiest solution I could think of would be to query a UD table and store every box’s text in it, then display that in my app as a read-only “text area” which references the query result.
But there’s a better way, right?
Is there a specific reason you don’t want to use a label? I’ve put paragraphs of info in a label and just set the alignment as left instead of right justified after making it big enough to hold the info.
lblLegend.Appearance.TextHAlign = Infragistics.Win.HAlign.Left;
App Studio… go try there. You’ll reach for the whiskey very quickly.
Completely overlooked the App Studio part. I knew there was a reason I avoided App Studio…
Use either an erp-rich-text-editor or erp-text-area with the Read Only state set.
Bind this to a field in your TransView:
Create an event like this:
You can set the value to any json escaped string (You can use this site to escape it for you Free Online JSON Escape / Unescape Tool - FreeFormatter.com). If you are using the rich text editor, you can give it HTML.
ex
"<p><strong>Dashboard:</strong><br />\r\nInsertTitleHere</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Notes:</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li> </li>\r\n</ul>"
Hook it up to your Window_OnLoad event
Voila
Here’s an idea you can vote on. Hopefully this will be easier to do in the future!
That’s excellent.
I was maybe 50% there in my thinking - I was thinking an event bound to TransView.MyMadeUpColumn. But I didn’t know how to write to it.
Row-update. I thought that didn’t actually do anything. But glad it does!
And thank you for the HTML/JSON tip. That’s nice.
Voted!
So, before the reply, I got impatient and started down the UD table path.
I plan to have a lot of text boxes on these apps, so the UD table should be faster.
The event idea is better - it keeps it all in the layer and there is the formatting option. I may use it for bigger things like a work instruction or something. Or when I don’t need so many text boxes in one app.
