Using the Table Browser from within a program

A developer recently asked on the Works forum if it was possible to use the table browser from within a program. Well the simple answer is "Yes". The slightly more complex answer is that since so many of the OI tools are now written in OI itself it is frequently possible to use these tools from within programs. The first thing we need to know is what the table browser window is called. It may come as a surprise to those more familiar with obscure naming conventions to find out that it is called "TABLE_BROWSER". So to call it programmatically we'd simply

atWindow = Start_Window("TABLE_BROWSER", @Window)

Of course launching it might not be enough - we might also want to populate it with the contents of a table. To do this we need to know the control names. To save you the investigative work we've included a table below :-

TABLE_BROWSER	The window
TABLE_BROWSER.BTN_CANCEL	The cancel button
TABLE_BROWSER.BTN_LOAD	The load button
TABLE_BROWSER.BTN_OK	The Ok button
TABLE_BROWSER.BTN_OPTIONS	The options button
TABLE_BROWSER.DATA_TABLE	The results edit table
TABLE_BROWSER.NUM_RECORDS	The number of records to display
TABLE_BROWSER.SELECTION_BTN	The selection button
TABLE_BROWSER.TABLENAME	The table name edit field
TABLE_BROWSER.TEXT_1	The Tablename static
TABLE_BROWSER.TEXT_2	The Number of Records static

So to launch the browser and load the AVERY_LABELS table we could

 Declare Function set_Property, start_Window        

 atWindow = Start_Window("TABLE_BROWSER", @Window)
 objxArray =  atWindow : ".TABLENAME" 
 propArray = "DEFPROP"
 dataArray = "AVERY_LABELS"     

 dataArray = set_Property( objxArray, propArray, dataArray )     

 Call send_Event(atWindow : ".BTN_LOAD", "CLICK")