Richard -
I believe you are completely correct: I am trying to do something incorrectly (still
learning the Palm way!). What I *really* want
is to use a PopupTrigger in place of a Field for the FormEdit that is part of a DB.
In other words, the Popup List contains the
values that can be used.
Sorry for the confusion..........
Todd
Richard Burmeister wrote:
> > From: Todd Cary
> >
> > I did this with pText a global. It appears that the pointer for
> > the label is not available. I first set the label to "Original" at
> > design time. This shows up as expected at run time. I push on
> > the button and I get my list. I select from the list and now the
> > Popup trigger has the new label. This stays.
> >
> > if Control <> nil then
> > begin
> > FrmCustomAlert(AlertError, 'Got Control ptr', '', '');
> > //Nothing happens to the control!!
> > pText := 'Testing';
> > FrmCustomAlert(AlertError, pText, '', '');
> > CtlSetLabel(Control, pText);
> > end else
> > FrmCustomAlert(AlertError, 'Control ptr = nil', '', '');
> >
>
> So, the question is: when do you call the code you have above? To change a
> popup trigger label, CtlSetLabel() works. You say the label changes when
> you select an item from the associated list. The OS does that for you --
> that's the way popup triggers work. If you want to change it to something
> else, call CtlSetLabel() again. However, if the user has just selected
> something from a list, he/she will expect to see what he selected in the
> popup trigger label.
>
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