Nice, I'm thinking of doing that myself, except I will probably use an option menu rather than a list field - much more familiar user interface using that way (or yours) than the combobox.
Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Slava Paperno <sl...@lexiconbridge.com>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
