Ability to Edit Table Cells in Simulation

Table is widely used in various ways. People may wish to sort/filter the table column/row by different rules, make table cell editable etc, and it is not easy to provide a general element that could fit different needs. So the table element in ForeUI only include the basic feature. Since ForeUI has “Javascript” element now, it is possible to custom your table element during the simulation.

Back to your question, the first thing cross my mind is the “contenteditable” attribute in HTML. I am not sure if it will fit all your needs, but it is worth trying. You can use the “Call Javascript Snippet” action to add this attribute to your table element, so your table becomes editable:

Actually, you can do more by writing more code, basically you can do anything you do in HTML programming. It doesn’t mean we encourage you to do so, it is just an idea.

Thanks for quick reply ViVi will certainly tryout your suggestion it appears this could be the solution to my table issue, I will let you know when done.

Thanks Mal

Hi tried out your suggestion it worked but unfortunately was not suitable for my needs I then decided to try to get the command to work on a cell level but could not get it to work – couple of examples of many variations I tried: <!–$(“#Table_1″{Table_1.selectedIndex}).innerHTML(“<div contenteditable></div>”)//–> or <!–$(“#Table_1”){selectedIndex}.innerHTML(“<div contenteditable></div>”)//–> but I could make it work by manually adding div to the html cells, but I only get it to work from JavaScript on Table level only.

So I had a good think, I could write some functions or try a different approach to achieve my goals and finally decided to steer away from manually editing Table cells.

So I decided to use instead Click Events and Custom Properties to insert values I needed to achieve my outcomes for my scoring system which saves the user to having to type in the cells.

Thank you for your help very much appreciated keep up the great work.

Thanks VIVI

Followed your suggestion and downloaded demo plot, I just keep on getting surprised.

For time being I will stick with current tools for 1st round of my demo (time), plus I have a whole lot of java learning to do and the demo plots are invaluable for this and using program.

Thanks once again

PS

I had a look at the scripting for including the jsWidgets and wanted to ask if it would be possible to enable script for jsWidgets to run from a local directory (I downloaded current Library from jqWidget site) and that they would still integrate with plot demo with export to html?

Very interested in the Data Grid and Combo Box controls to replace the current tables and Combo boxes in my demo if I get to 2nd round.

As down the track I will probably add these controls into a .Net Razor Project if my demo gets the go ahead.

Cheers

Hi Mal,

Using the jQWidgets files in local hard-disk is possible, just replace the URL of the JS file to a local file URL (something like file:///……. ), it will work in the same way.

However if you use local files, they will not be included in the generated directory, so if you upload the directory to web server, they will not work (URL unmatched), unless you use relative path in the file URL, and upload those JS files to server accordingly.

We will consider adding the ability to let ForeUI to pack additional files, that should be a good feature to add.