Re: [Active4d-dev] RE: Collection Problem

[Aparajita Fishman]

method "On Application Start"
        `need to create the global collection, cFormSelects, for forms
                cFormSelects:=new global collection
		array string(255;$aReqTypes;0)
		set array($aReqTypes;"Medical", "School Business", "Personal", 
"Comp.",
"Funeral")
		cFormSelects{"ReqTypes"}:=$aReqTypes

end method
cFormSelects sure looks like a process variable to me, which don't do 
you much good in subsequent requests, which are in other processes.

Try this:
   c_longint($c)
   $c := new global collection
   [snip]
   $c{"ReqTypes"} := $aReqTypes
   globals{"cFormSelects"} := $c
The last line is the crucial one.
Then elsewhere you reference the collection from the globals via 
globals{"cFormSelects"}.

But this begs the point -- your "BuildSelect" method is just 
reinventing the wheel. I have a bunch of methods in a4d.web for 
building select menus.

In your library mylib.a4l, do this:
   define(kFormSelects; "Medical;School 
Business;Personal";Comp.";Funeral")

Then in your page you do this, assuming you want to default to the 
first value:

  import("a4d.web")
  a4d.web.BuildSelectMenu(mylib.kFormSelects; 1; "")
Hey everybody! Please take a close look at a4d.web and a4d.utils. There 
is a lot of useful stuff in there!

Regards,
   Aparajita
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