Re: Re[2]: "extract" command enhancement (subfiles and Biffs)

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 1) Try doing a "page-at-a-time" load of your listbox in Visual Basic,
>      where you handle the scrolling of the listbox in your program.
>      If you have megabytes of data to display, loading it all at
>      once isn't practical.

> 2) Try making something akin to a subfile in visual basic that has
>      both input and output fields on the same record...  Heck, try
>      doing input in general in a scrollable, subfile-like way in
>      visual basic.
>
> I've done these things, and found myself wishing I was using DDS
> and subfiles.  "The grass is always greener on the other side"
> comes to mind.

I'm no VB expert, but I do remember using a database-linked grid control,
which at the time was a 3rd party (non-Microsoft) control, which didn't
require much more than simply pointing it at the database and selecting
which columns I wanted and which ones allowed input.



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