[Gambas-user] Connecting DataControl to DataSource

[Lewis Balentine]

YEP --- that was the problem. I completely missed "is a container". In 
MS VB5/6 you only needed to place the Datasources on the same form .... 
actually not even that: you could build a connection or selection set 
and reference that.

One thing I would like to see is the ability to return the SQL Query 
actually used to obtain the "Result". This would be very helpful when 
trying to figure out why something did not work like one expected it to. 
I have used the "Subst" function to build such a string but there is 
always the nagging doubt that it is not exactly the same via some way 
Gambas handles substitutions or (more likely) I made a typo in 
duplicating the process.

Thanks for you help LEE.

Regards,

Lewis


On 01/05/2015 07:58 PM, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 04:35 PM, Lewis Balentine wrote:
>> I must be missing something very basic in the use of form database controls.
>> I can not seem to get a data control populated ...
>> It appears to me that the data control is not linked to the DataSource.
>> What am I missing ???
>>
>> Two additional questions:
>> Is there a way to access the "Result" object of a DataSource ?
>> Is there a way to change the "DataSource" for a DataControl ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Lewis Balentine
> Hi Lewis,
>
> You didn't provide your project, so I can only guess at how you've designed the DataSource and DataControl(s).
>
> But, I think I can answer your first and third questions with one answer. Your third question gives me a hint that you are doing the same thing
> I first did.
>
> One thing that I missed at first is that the data control needs to be a child of the data source, and, conversely the data source must be the
> parent of the data control.
>
> In other words, when you place the DataSource on the form, you then expand it so it can contain (ie. be the parent of) the data controls.
>
>
> Lee
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