Live Clairvoyance customization

[Craig McPherson]

for your first 'problem' it would seem that simply selecting the records
which meet the criteria for the live clairvoyance would solve your
problem...
I have no comment on your second issue (haven't read it yet).
Craig McPherson

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Scott Taylor <scott at prototek.net> wrote:

>  I've been using my own LiveClairvoyance form since it first became
> available, and I love it.  It's extremely useful for looking up customers
> when I only have a fragment of information about them – a partial company
> name, a city, a contact name.  It even seems to get every relevant record
> the first time in the full release version of Pan 5.5, rather than sometimes
> having to repeat the query as in beta versions.
>
> There are a few things that would make its use a little more efficient,
> though, and I'd like to pick some minds to see what can be done.  I
> constructed my forms, objects and procedures according to the documented
> instructions.  If you haven't made your own Live Clairvoyance form, what
> follows will probably make no sense to you.
>
> When my query returns more than one match in my SLSO, I can highlight any
> of them with a click and my other form window that shows the current record
> updates with the data for the record I clicked on.  That's very good; I can
> see all the rest of the information to see if that is the one I am looking
> for.  Then I have another button on my LC form that closes my LC form so I
> can work directly with the record in its main form.  But before doing that,
> when I have clicked on an item in my SLSO, causing that record to show in my
> main form, if I use the up or down arrow key I am taken to the *next
> record in the database *(depending on how it is currently sorted).  What
> I'd really prefer is that pressing the up or down arrow, when my LC form is
> frontmost, takes me to the *next entry in my SLSO list*, and shows it in
> the main form.  It may seem trivially different from just clicking on each
> SLSO entry, but it truly would be more efficient to be able to use the
> arrows for this.
>
> Another nice thing would be to be able to double-click on an SLSO entry to
> accomplish what my button does (close the LC form and go to the main form).
>  What the single click does is fine, but I don't see any way to program a
> double-click event within my LC form.  I can (and do) attach a procedure to
> the SLSO to activate on Click/Release, but I'd like to activate a different
> procedure with double-click.  Interestingly, the Live Clairvoyance Wizard
> responds to a double-click to select a record, and ignores single clicks,
> but I don't seem to be able to look at the guts of that wizard to see how it
> does it.
>
> Anyone have ideas for me?
>
> Scott
>
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