Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@mcs-server.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Steve Jobs' demo, was that a new IB? Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 90 19:12:06 GMT References: <23256@grebyn.com> <11300@milton.u.washington.edu> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: mcs-server.gac.edu In-reply-to: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 17 Nov 90 08:50:33 GMTLines: 33 In article <11300@milton.u.washington.edu> wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) writes: On the 20 minute (too short) demo tape of Steve's big unrolling, I noticed something a little wierd about the way he was hooking up the DBKit. He would control-drag FROM a FormCell TO the DBKit. This seems wierd, because last I knew this wouldn't give the DBKit any info-- it would just give the FormCell a pointer to the DBKit, but not vice versa. Yet, when he ran the demo he'd made, the DBKit magically filled in all three FormCells when he did a lookup. If this wasn't wierd enough, the title on the FormCell automatically got set to the name of the DBKit field he hooked it up to. Now, I know I haven't seen this in 2.0. Well, there's a couple explainations. I will start out my post by saying that I have _no_ idea how it was done, this is just speculation . . . The automagically named stuff isn't that hard. If you look closely, you realize that that's a custom Connections panel, so they can do strange and wonderful stuff in it. At least I _hope_ it's a custom Connections panel, because I would like to be able to do that. The form pointing to the database can be handled using delegation (by the NXBrowser and the other objects), or by spoofing in the custom connections panel (by cross-connecting appropriately, in a user-invisible manner). So, I don't think there'd be any problems with doing this in a regular IB . . . -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer (Stuart) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!)