hiya,

I have a piece of messy code that I wrote that I hope can be improved by using llblGenPro.

The code assigns a value to a label, depending on the quantity of stock avaliable.

if (products.qty<= 0) {
            tdAmountOnHand.BgColor = "Red";    //inadequate stock levels 
                    
} else if (products.qty<= 5) {
            tdAmountOnHand.BgColor = "Green";   //adequate stock levels
        }

I can improve on this code slightly myself, but I was wondering, could LlbGenPro generate this logic if I created the correct objects in my database?

eg,could I add a "minimumAdequateStockLevel" field to my database so that I would not have to hard-code the numbers "0" and "5"?

ideally, I'd also like to be able to simply pass a "quantity" arg to an LlbGenPro generated object and have the correct "string" colour returned.

Is any of the above possible?

i hope the question made sense :-)

cheers,

yogi

Hi,

IMHO this is seems the way to go.. You might create a property on the Products class returning a Color value, which could make it like:

tdAmountOnHand.BgColor = Products.StockColor;

But is the code LLBL based? If, then: Is Products a instance of collection or entityclass (based on the product"S" i would guess collection)

Do you have to retrieve the color value on more places than this?

Just trying to help,

Greets, Gab

Just as Gabriel has suggested you might use own property on the Products generated Entity Class, inside the "CustomEntityCode" user code region .

Please refer to LLBLGen Pro documentation "Using the generated code - Adding your own code to the generated classes"

thanks folks,

I had hoped as much. I'll look into it.

cheers, yogi