My group and I are making a program that allows the user to add new control arrays at runtime to the form. I was just wondering if anyone knows how to save this changed form so that the user can load their changed form at a later time?
Computer Science Canada Saving a dynamically changed form! |
| Author: | 13ennett [ Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Saving a dynamically changed form! |
My group and I are making a program that allows the user to add new control arrays at runtime to the form. I was just wondering if anyone knows how to save this changed form so that the user can load their changed form at a later time? |
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| Author: | jbking [ Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Saving a dynamically changed form! |
My guess would be to have a save button that does either a postback or a callback and stores the information on the form in a database or text file for later retrival. What language are you using on the server and client side for the form? |
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| Author: | 13ennett [ Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:Saving a dynamically changed form! |
jbking @ Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:25 pm wrote: What language are you using on the server and client side for the form? I don't really know what your asking. I'm using VB6, and i want the saved button to save the new controls that have been added to the form by the user at runtime, not save data enetred into text boxes. |
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| Author: | jbking [ Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Saving a dynamically changed form! |
There at least to my mind more than a few different flavors of what falls under the heading of VB. For example: Original VB, latest of which is VB6 - Which is what you are using. VBScript - Classic ASP used this scripting language that is very similar to VB in some ways in terms of syntax. VB.Net - This has versions varying with the .Net framework so there are 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, and 3.5 that are a few versions within VB.Net alone. I had assumed that the form was within one of two structures: 1) Web - In this case there is the server sending the form and a client sending the response. This may be in classic ASP or ASP.Net. 2) Client/Server structure - In this case you have 2 different sets of code running where there is a server which may have web services or .Net remoting or some other mechanism to allow requests for various bits of data. If you are running on a standalone application which appears to be the case, then the issue is more of finding a way to store the state so that when the user starts up the application it can load where it was. Is it possible to use a database or flat file to store this data? |
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