I appreciate the suggestions and, like every one else here, I *have* gotten into the habit of writing code to fill in the gaps in 4D’s feature set. In this case, I’d like to avoid creating another widget though, Jody, to your point, creating one UI that "does it all” would be a tidy solution.
The grid in question is big (dozens of thousands of rows and just over 80 columns) and I’ve got two data entry widgets - 4D dropdown menus/hierarchical menus and a window that allows the user to create multi-segment configuration strings. I’m not keen on introducing "yet another" interface item but that might be my only option. Decisions, decisions… -- Douglas von Roeder 949-910-4084 On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:46 AM Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug: > > Many years ago we recognized a few limitations of popups. Therefore over > about a year we reworked our popup code, and also the interface that > indicates a popup. > > The first thing we did was we never used a popup object built in by 4D. We > created our own object that our user base learned was a popup. Then we > could use an invisible button over top of the custom graphic. Therefore in > the button we could decide what we wanted for the specific interface at > that site, for that user, for that specific item. > > Doing this then as Keisuke Miyako says, you could present a multi-select > listbox to what the user thinks of as a specialized popup. > > > > On Mar 4, 2020, at 6:28 PM, Douglas von Roeder via 4D_Tech < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I’d like to create a UI that supports selecting multiple values without > the > > menu closing. > > > > With the exception of using a web area, is there anyway to do this in 4D? > > > > -- > > Douglas von Roeder > > 949-910-4084 > > ********************************************************************** > > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > > ********************************************************************** > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
