Re: Buttons to navigate forms

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:10 +0100, Frederik Vande Rieviere wrote:
> On 04 Mar 2010, at 15:59, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:53 +0100, Frederik Vande Rieviere wrote:
> > > I've tried scanning trough the archives and haven't found an
> > > answer to this question, so here goes :
> > >
> > > Is it possible to make a button to jump to another layout, so I
> > > can make a main layout with buttons so users can navigate to
> > > different layouts and back based on buttons?
> >
> > Yes. I added that feature a few days ago. It's in today's
> > development
> > release. But it won't be in a current distro's packaged version yet.
>
>
> Any chance on a rough estimate on when it would be in a Windows
> version?

A few weeks maybe.

> > I wonder, what other Python API would people like?
> >
> > For instance:
> > print_report("reportname");
> > do_find(findcriteria)
> > ?

I'll try to implement these before releasing the stable 1.14.0.

> Those would be very useful. If not possible already : i'd like a
> functionality where you can set the editable status of a field, so you
> could have a non-editable field with an "Edit" button next to it,
> which renders the field in an edible state when clicked. Very handy
> for a kind of "first off" protection for certain critical fields you
> don't want to have edited unless absolutely certain.

Whether a field is editable is normally controlled by the users'
privileges in the Users/Group window. Couldn't we generalize this into
some generic "Warn the user before allowing them to change this field's
data" checkbox?

> I'd also like fields with scroll bars for bigger text blocks.

Good idea. That should be easy. I'll try.

> I'd also like a more convenient way to edit layouts (like in a
> publishing app or FileMaker or Kexi)

Yes, the drag-and-drop layout is still not mature.

> I'd also like to run the windows version as an administrator so i
> don't have to log out and log in to tinker with glom while setting up
> a database.

Sorry, that's just not possible with PostgreSQL and I doubt that it's a
good idea in general, particularly when running networked applications
such as Glom or a web browser. Well, I don't use Windows these days, but
the PostgreSQL code prevents us from allowing this.


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