>
> I have two remaining problems.
> When I tried the first example I found that TodayFormatted and the
other
> date variables were not being evaluated in the dialog box, so they
appeared,
> not as a date as in your second example but as TodayFormatted ie
as their
> variable names.
I was careless on this one. It should be
Inputdialog ("~,=^StartDay = Choose a day??" ++ TodayFormatted
++ "|" ... ++ TodayplusSixFormatted, "title"))
The idea is to build up a string by joining with ++ the strings
("~,=^StartDay = Choose a day??"
with the contents of the variable
TodayFormatted
followed by a
"|"
followed by the next variable, and so on until the last variable.
The string for inputdialog is confusing because you actual want a
variable name within the quotes before the = (in this case
StartDay), where it serves the special purpose of naming the place
for the results. But the rest of the string has to use the contents
of the variables to build up the combo box values.
As another example, consider showing a messagebox
MessageBox("ok", TodayFormatted ++ "|" ++ TodayplusSixFormatted)
which will show the first and last dates in a message. If this
makes sense to you, it may help with Inputdialog.
>
> In the second example I wanted to have more than one drop down
list in my
> combo box.
Perhaps the following example will help.
local out1, out2
local box1vals = "1,|2|3,3|4|5"
local box2vals = "a|b|c|d"
inputdialog("~,=^out1=title1??"
++box1vals++ "^out2=title2??"++box2vals, "title")
The inputdialog is all one line.
Here is explanation:
box1vals has the values for first drop down. (You would need to
change for your purposes, of course). Note commas which I have
included since your dates might have them.
box2vals has values for second.
In the inputdialog line:
~ means no file or folder buttons
,=^ means use ^ to separate different elements on the dialog
out1=title1?? means create a drop down combo box title1 and put its
selected value in out1
++box1vals incorporates the drop down values
^ is the separator stating a new dialog element follows (changed
from , by ,=^ at start)
similarly for out2 title2 box2vals
There is no doubt that this is quite confusing and just illustrates
that PowerPro dialogs, esp combox boxes, are not at all easy to use.
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