Possibility to retrieve the dataprovider for the curser

Classic Servoy
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Hello, I would like to be able to get the dataprovider (column name) of the field the cursor is in. Is this possible?

Thanks!

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What whould be the use?

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I have to uses in mind:

  1. I want to write a method that shows a dialog with everything you need to know about a field (something like a “field stamp”). It shows you table name, field type, remarks… Something like an on-line documentation.

Of course, I don’t want to attach an action to all my fields. So if I could retrieve the dataprovider where the current cursor is…

  1. I want to do basically the same with the log. If you want to see changes of a certain field, you can create one global method that does that if you know for which field the user wanted the information.

Got the idea?

Thanks!

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How are you planning to trigger that action if a user is in a textfield?
You have to add actions to all youre textfields to begin running a method anyway.
and with application.getMethodTriggerElementName() you can get the textfields name that is the trigger.

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If I understand you right, the cursor is out of the field if you hit a button? I was hoping to either use a button, or just a method from the menu or (the best) a menu item from my self-defined menu bar :lol:

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Currently it is not possible to get the active component to do it through a button or menu.
And a button will become the active component if it can get the focus (you have an option now to leave the cursor in the field when using a button that is not clickable and focusable)

But this won’t help you at the moment.