I'm from Delphi school. I was really used and pleased with Delphi networks with the benefits of InfoPower features. Not only me, my users love all the features that include meshes. Some motives for this are:
- With grids, they can insert detailed information using only the keyboard. Input, tab, input, tab, input tab (automatically insert a new line), input, tab, etc.
- They managed to simply click on the line and edit its data.
- They can be moved between entries using only the arrow keys.
In my flex applications, I often work on this, sometimes using a popup to insert data, sometimes using a repeater instead of a grid. But now I really need an intuitive, quick way for my users to insert this data.
I am trying to use a DataGrid (or AdvancedDataGrid) with built-in editors, and I live in hell to do this. For the past 3 days, I have been struggling, tuning, and tuning to try and reproduce the functions that I had with Delphi.
Main problems:
- DateField just does not work as a built-in editor. It gets focus, but never loses, only with the ESC key, which makes me lose the entered data.
- AdvancedAutoComplete: I have a descendant component from AdvancedAutoComplete with a custom browser. A custom browser is a popup when I try PopupManager.remove flex throws a null pointer exception inside its focal engines.
- I could not insert a new row focused in the first column when TABing in the last column of the last row.
The presence of all these problems and the lack of material to solve them makes me think (now obvious) the fact that this is simply not how the meshes are designed to work in flex. My question is: what are the templates used in flex applications to make detailed, intuitive, fast, only keyboard inserts in detail?
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