"If so, you will need to build your own control, easy and fun to
do"
Not so sure if I want that kind of fun. I'd be happy with a drop
down control that works. Already tried a more homegrown solution that
was more trouble than it was worth.
Mike
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From: Admin
To: How to use LiveCode
Sent: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 9:54 am
Subject: Re: How to sort on keydown
Chris,
I did away with the drop down (which was not really a true
drop down since the revlet player cannot scroll drop down boxes in most
browsers), and switched to a option box instead.
Chris,
I did away with the drop down (which was not really a true
drop down since the revlet player cannot scroll drop down boxes in most
browsers), and switched to a option box instead.
How would I do the
same thing (user clicks the option box and then presses say, the 'm" key
for March?
Since sort will re-order the items, I think what you want is "select". You
are also sorting "items" which by default means the chunks of text separated
by commas (you can change the commas to any other character by setting the
itemDelimiter), but I'm guessing you mean lines. If it actually IS items
Pete,
Taking your advice, I changed the combo boxes to option
drop down controls (ignore the name of cmbGender - it's still a option
box now).
The following no longer works. Please advise on how to fix
these:
set the label of btn "cmbGender" to "Choose"
set the label of
btn "optMonth" t
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do but here's a suggestion.
Sounds like you should use an option menu and set the text property of it
in the Inspector palette to the months in alpha order, one per line. When
the user clicks on the option menu, the list of months will appear and if
the
Hello everyone.
I wrote the following code:
on keydown
show
field "MonthDropDown"
sort items of field "MonthDropDown" by keydown
letter
end keydown
It's wrong. I know it's wrong. How do I make it
right? (I want the drop down list to end up on the letter of what the
user pressed on keydo
