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Submitted by David_H on 2009/01/06 06:02

Anything I might unknowingly be playing with that would be causing me to lose every column in a grid? It is happening now and then and it's a bit maddening, I have to set every single one up all over again.

Related to this, I also never seem to be able to get my columns to "stay put". I will size them just the way I want them, and the next time I open and close the program they are all different widths again. This seems to happen at random, not all the time. Is there any way to lock the columns in much the same way that I can lock the Windows taskbar? I think I have tried Grid>Save with no luck.

Lastly, on the subject of columns, when I add a new column, is there now way to avoid having to adjust every other column to get the new colum to fit? i.e. if I could just resize from the furthermost left, instead of resizing the new colum on the right, which then causes me to resize the next column to the left, and so on, until I have adjusted every single one. Edit: I just noticed that the way I said I would like it to work is exactly the way some grids behave while others do not. A bug?

It sure would be nice if the default was just to automatically size all the columns so the text on the column fits on the page.

Edit: is it possible this is happening when I delete a field related to a column, and that perhaps causes ALL the other columns in a grid that was using that field to disappear as well?

Thanks

Comments

Loosing columns: Armando also reported this, and I have seen it on occasions. I'll revisit the code and make it more robust
Column sizing: Uncheck Grid > Auto-size width and resizing will be much easier
Column widths: double-click on the line between column heading will resize the column to its content (same as Excel). This could automatically be done when inserting a column, I'll look into it.

1. I have not tested it as I don't have the energy at the moment but I am guessing it is related to my constant adding and especially deletion of fields as I am learning the program and fine-tuning the setup. I am thinking as stated earlier that when I delete a field that is in a grid, the other fields/columns disappear.

2. MUCH better, thanks, I suggest that should be the default for the program as opposed to the other way around.

3. But it sizes to the field content. I'd think it would be better to size to the text on the column/field header itself. Either way could be wrong of course, but I'd bet the latter is what people want much more often. As an example, right now I have 5 yes/no columns, so when I double-click all it does it stack them all because it is sizing to a single check mark instead of the name of the column.

Have to leap in here and disagree on (3). When I auto-size a column I want it to size to the data, not the header. If it's a narrow column as in your example I can manually resize but for me the benefit of autosizing is to reveal column data.

Just my 2¢

John

> Loosing columns:

Can't find the original report... But it happened 2 times in the last week. Hopefully this can be fixed as it is extremely time consuming...

The problem is that I can't seem to be able to reproduce it. It just happens -- but I remember trying to nail it down at some point....Just can't find the page where I last talked about it.

Created a mantis issue for it.