Hello,
I am working on a powertable and trying to configure columns. some have options to create a dropdown, one is a text field. The text field and dropdown worked fine at first, but once I added another with conditions everything went bad and now only shows my first return as options for all editable fields. I need to have multiple options based on a dropdown on the screen, but so far this isn't working. Any help would be appreciated.
Your syntax for additional conditions in if/else if is wrong.
Line 6 needs to be either:
if colName in ('COMP 1 LEVEL', 'COMP 2 LEVEL')
Or
if colName == 'COMP 1 LEVEL' or colName == 'COMP 2 LEVEL'
Similar issues on line 10 and 13 with the and.
What's happening now is the literal string COMP 2 LEVEL on line 6 is evaluating true as the second check, ending up always evaluating that if block as true.
Okay. I believe I understand. For Lines 8-12. Do I need to do something else to get it to switch to the second set of options whenever my dropdown changes string values? right now it is only switching when I go from preview to design mode and then back to preview. The comp level values are holding strong the whole time, so I believe this part is corrected.
Just a note, that
colName in ('POSITION')
is not the same as
colName in 'POSITION'
The first is looking for a string in a sequence and will return false if colName is not 'POSITION'.
The second is looking for a string or substring match in the literal string 'POSITION' so if your column name was any of P,PO, OSI, etc.. it will return true.
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colName in 'POSITION' (probably) isn't quite right - you're saying "return True if the string POSITION contains my current column name. So a column name of POS, IT, TION, etc would all return true for that check. You probably want a simple equality check there.
As an aside, some of your repetitive options creations can be simplified using list comprehensions:
options = [(it, str(it)) for it in (0, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100)]
options = [(it, str(it)) for it in xrange(18)]
options = enumerate(['0', '1', '2', '1V', '2V', '3V', '4V', '5V', '6V', '7V', '8V', '9V'])
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I did fix my position string to be ('POSITION') but let me explain a little better. Both sets come up based on my dropdown selection, but if I have 721 chosen first then switch to 722 it will keep 721's list of options. But if I go back and forth from preview to design and then back, it will then switch to 722's list. I am unsure of why. In the program I have to change screens for it to change list options under position after I choose a different option in the dropdown.
721 selected
722 selected- get the same list
press stop to go back to design and then press play to go back to preview and 722's options then finally appear.
In the actual program I have to change screens to get them to show up.
configureEditor doesn't fire all the time - it basically fires once, on initialization of the table. If you want more dynamic option support, you have to get a little more advanced with it. Let me dredge up some old sample code...
I will dig into this. Thank you for the help.