Thanks to CellRenderers and CellEditors, we may edit existing lists with just this line added:
cell_editing_allowed true
If you want row selectors to be shown:
show_selector true
The selector itself may be changed, the default is a gt sign: “>”
Editable list using Field class
Since the rows are selectable, therefore you can make a list of items, and select some as you would in a checklist, or todo list. However, now the user can edit and add to the list also. However, editing facilities means that keys for selection and navigation need to be selected so they do not clash with editing keys. Earlier, space bar selected.
Here is the result on a list of strings. When the cursor falls on the row, the default CellEditor which uses a Field is used for accepting keys. You may extend and install your own editor, as we have done for checkboxes and combos.
By default, boolean values would show as “true” and “false”, so we needed to create a CheckBoxCellRenderer, that display true and false just as a checkbox does. As far as the CellEditor is concerned, just pass a Checkbox in the constructor. It will be reused for editing each row.(link)
The 2 important lines are:
# create and set a cell renderer
cell_renderer RubyCurses::CheckBoxCellRenderer.new nil, {"parent" => self, "display_length"=> @width-2}
# create and set a cell editor, passing a checkbox
cell_editor RubyCurses::CellEditor.new(RubyCurses::CheckBox.new nil, {"focusable"=>false, "visible"=>false})
A listing of the box code is as follows. alist is the list of boolean values.
alist = [true, false, true, false, true, false, true, false, true]
cblist = RVariable.new alist
listcb = Listbox.new @form do
name "cblist"
row 1
col 96
width 8
height 10
# list mylist
list_variable cblist
#selection_mode :SINGLE
title "Checklist"
title_attrib 'reverse'
cell_renderer RubyCurses::CheckBoxCellRenderer.new nil, {"parent" => self, "display_length"=> @width-2}
cell_editing_allowed true
cell_editor RubyCurses::CellEditor.new(RubyCurses::CheckBox.new nil, {"focusable"=>false, "visible"=>false})
end
The above will be of more practical value when we allow editable multi-column tables, with columns containing Fields, checkboxes etc.
A list of editable checkboxes, and one of combolists
The next example is of a list of comboboxes. The main lines are those setting the CellRenderer (not really required, i think, since the combobox extends Field. However, the editor is created with a combobox passed in the constructor of the editor. Note that the constructor of the combobox must pass in the list or list_data_model, as before.
cell_renderer RubyCurses::ComboBoxCellRenderer.new nil, {"parent" => self, "display_length"=> width()-2}
cell_editing_allowed true
cell_editor RubyCurses::CellEditor.new(RubyCurses::ComboBox.new nil, {"focusable"=>false, "visible"=>false, "list"=>colist, "display_length"=>width()-2})
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