On Mar 20, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > > > On 21/03/11 12:38 PM, "Kee Nethery" <k...@kagi.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Terry, >> >> Actually I'm at the point of one step forward two steps back. >> >> I appear to be unable to put the return delimited list into the combobox more >> than a couple of times. I've tried all of these variations of the script to >> alter the combobox text: >> >> put theList into me >> put theList into button "myComboBox" >> put theList into field "myComboBox" of button "myComboBox" >> put theList into field "myComboBox" > > I think you should be setting the text of the button.
set the text of button "myComboBox" to theList Good suggestion, but it crashed. >> >> I can get one or two inserts (I type different things into the combobox) >> before the whole stack crashes and the apple "Problem Report for LiveCode" >> appears. >> >> ---- >> >> When I can get the combobox data to get updated, the following scripts don't >> leave the text selected (the data in the combobox is for these examples >> always >> more than 5 characters in length): >> >> select char 2 to 5 of me >> select char 2 to 5 of button "myComboBox" >> select char 2 to 5 of field "myComboBox" >> select char 2 to 5 of field "myComboBox" of button "myComboBox" >> select char 2 to 5 of the label of me >> select char 2 to 5 of fld 0 of me <-- not sure what "fld 0" is in a button >> but tried it anyway > > So in a keyUp handler you get line 1 of the text of the control (or the > label of the control) and based on it you create your list of options. You > then set the text of the control to this list and then select the characters > as suggested. As in... To get the data that has been typed the code I use is: put word 1 of the label of me into theSearchText No problems with that. > > Select char length(<original label>)+1 to -1 of fld 0 of me That's one of the variations I've been trying and it causes a crash. > > Based on my limited testing this works as advertised (it didn't fail on > repeated testing) on Mac OSX but I can't vouch for it on Windows. I'm running LiveCode 4.5.1 perhaps this got fixed in one of the later versions? I'll submit a question to Runrev. If I ever get comboboxes to work, I'll post the magic here. Thanks everyone, Kee > > HTH, > > Terry... > >> >> Thank you for your suggestions. >> >> The only example I'd seen of changing a combobox contents is in the font >> portion of the inspector but I'm not sure how to access that code to see what >> they are doing, how exactly they are referring to that content. >> >> The documentation has almost nothing about combo boxes. There is something >> different about them. >> >> Kee >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > -- > Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education > Medical Education Unit > Melbourne Medical School > The University of Melbourne > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ------------------------------------------------- I check email roughly 2 to 3 times per day. Kagi main office: +1 (510) 550-1336 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
