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The Data Selector is essentially the same as the one used in PlanetPress Design.
The File Viewer is like a Data Selector without any data related options, such as emulation
settings. It is displayed when doing a data selection from the Generic Splitter task (see
"Generic Splitter" on page389) with the Use Emulation option unchecked. The only data
formatting codes to which the File Viewer responds are line breaks.
Data tab
The Data tab contains the Data Options, which let you select your emulation, and the Selector
Options, which let you personalize the data selector's display options (see "Data Selector
display preferences" on page752).
The Data Selector uses the emulation (either the emulation chosen when the sample data file
was selected, or the one chosen in the last Change Emulation action task appearing above
the current task) to format the data. It displays the formatted data to let you make selections
easily using the mouse pointer.
Depending on the chosen emulation and data file, the options in the Data Selector, the Sample
data file section and the Data pane itself may change to accommodate your choice. The Line
Printer, Ascii, Channel Skip and User-Defined emulations will display the default options (see
"About data emulation" on page54) and a grid-like display of each character on each line. The
following emulations however, will be slightly different.
Database Emulation
The Database emulation exchanges the Browse button for the Database Emulation
Configuration button , which displays the Database Emulation Configuration (see "Database
emulation" on page68).
Once a database has been opened and query entered (see "Choosing a database sample file"
on page66), the Data pane displays the results of the SQL Query in a grid format, which each
line representing a single returned row from the database. Each column represents a field
returned by the query, with its field name as a row header.
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