On Jan 30, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Roger Lovelock wrote:
> As well as the normal navigation buttons I would like to use a drop
> down list or similar control as a means of record access. This is
> for tables of between 20 and 80 records or so. A simple dabo
> dropdown list seems to display all records (not a good idea with say
> 50 records), and a list box gets a bit clumsy with that many records
> also. What I'd really like is either a drop down list with a maximum
> of (say) 20 records displayed at one time and a scroll bar down the
> side for more, or a combo box style where as I enter characters in
> the text box the list below is limited to those entries in the list
> matching the characters entered. These are both styles of control in
> common use.
> I can't find anything in dabo that matches this need (doesn't
> mean its not there, just that I can't find it.
> Any suggestions on what I can use, or will I need to drop back to
> wx etc etc etc
How about a grid? You can control the overall size, the RowHeight,
etc. You can have a single column so that it looks like a list. You
can turn off the headers using ShowColumnLabels=False, and the lines
around the cells with ShowCellBorders=False. It has incremental search
built-in.
-- Ed Leafe
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