I guess what I was after was a dListBox that was 'drop down'. The main idea
was to not use up too much scrren real-estate unless a selection was being
made - ie I'd really like the drop down to go over the top of other controls
(just like a dDropdownList). I had thoughts of using a button which when
clicked would make a dListBox visible over the top of the button (and any
other controls in the area), and then to make the dListBox invisible again
once a selection had been made, but there seem to be issues with any other
controls in the same area of the form going over the top of the dListBox.
What I have done now is to dedicate an area of the form for a standard
dListBox showing about 10 of the records and letting the user scroll to
whatever record he wants - not ideal, but workable.
Thanks
Rodgy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Leafe" <[email protected]>
To: "Dabo Users list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [dabo-users] List Controls
> 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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