Pete, I gave up on comboboxes for a different reason--they don't have the unicodeText property, being half-buttons, half fields. I ended up emulating a combobox by putting two fields on the card--a one-line text input field, and below it, a list field. The list field is locked and initially hidden. When the user clicks in the input field, the list field is shown; when the user presses Enter in the input field, the list field is hidden again.
Slava > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Pete > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 6:58 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Combobox > > Another quirk I just discovered with comboboxes. Setting the > menuHistory of > a combobox displays the correct choice, but subsequent clicks on the > arrow > to display the choices do not position the list of choices at the > displayed > value, as it does with an option menu. In fairness, the dictionary > does not > claim it will do that for comboboxes but it seems a little strange that > it > doesn't. > > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, J. Landman Gay > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > > > On 6/30/11 3:24 PM, Pete wrote: > > > >> How do I get hold of the text the user just typed in, for example to > set > >> the menuhistory using a lineOffset function? > >> > > > > It's the label. > > > > -- > > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > > 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<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
