DCBROWSE vs DCQUICKBROWSE

[Maxz]

2 side-by-side examples:

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on the left, a correctly displayed dcbrowse:
@ 1,1 DCBROWSE oBrowse SIZE 95,18 ID "BROWSE" ;
CURSORMODE XBPBRW_CURSOR_ROW ALIAS "DBCLIF" ;
PRESENTATION { { XBP_PP_COL_HA_FGCLR, GRA_CLR_BLACK },; /// Header FG Color
{ XBP_PP_COL_HA_BGCLR, GRA_CLR_BACKGROUND },; /// Header BG Color
{ XBP_PP_COL_FA_FGCLR, GRA_CLR_YELLOW },; /// Footer FG Color
{ XBP_PP_COL_FA_BGCLR, GRA_CLR_DARKGRAY },; /// Footer BG Color
{ XBP_PP_COL_DA_CELLHEIGHT, 20 }} ; /// Cell Height
NOSIZECOLS

DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_4 Header "field4" WIDTH 30 PARENT oBrowse OBJECT oColumn
DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_1 Header "field1" WIDTH 5 PARENT oBrowse
DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_3 Header "field3" WIDTH 10 PARENT oBrowse
DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_2 Header "field2" WIDTH 15 PARENT oBrowse

on the right a quickbrowse that for a tenth of a second displays the columns with the same width as the dcbrowse and then narrows:

@ 1,1 DCQUICKBROWSE OBJECT oBrowse SIZE 95,18 ID "BROWSE" ;
CURSORMODE XBPBRW_CURSOR_ROW ALIAS "DBCLIF"

DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_4 Header "field4" WIDTH 30 PARENT oBrowse OBJECT oColumn
DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_1 Header "field1" WIDTH 5 PARENT oBrowse
DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_3 Header "field3" WIDTH 10 PARENT oBrowse
DCBROWSECOL FIELD DBCLIF->FIELD_2 Header "field2" WIDTH 15 PARENT oBrowse

[rdonnay]

I don't know anyone who uses DCQUICKBROWSE.

It is so much weaker in capability that it was not possible to add all the features that I added to DCBROWSE.

[Maxz]

Tom or has anyone else ever used xbpquickbrowse instead of xbpbrowse ?

I would need to have confirmation that it is a topic to be abandoned ( because it works badly or has not been completed by alaska, or for other reasons)
if instead someone thinks that the xbpquickbrowse works well exactly like the xbpbrowse then I could go ahead with my operating experiments

I really appreciate your ideas and suggestions

[Tom]

Tom or has anyone else ever used xbpquickbrowse instead of xbpbrowse ?

I just found 1 (one) DCQUICKBROWSE in all our code bases, compared to, I don't know, > 2,000 DCBROWSEs. Since it's using the DacPagedDataStore class and works different to a XbpBrowse, we never gave that a real cance. The data source is not sychronous to the data in the browse. It has several limitations concerning the appearance, and I can't work with ownerdrawing. However, I don't need the speed improvements.

[Maxz]

Tom

my only reason for using the quickbrowse was to simulate a panning upwards when inserting (virtual) a record at the bottom of the browse (see dcbrowse - insert row (new record) topic)

if I could get xbpbrowse to do the same thing then I would continue to use it