Re: [RBASE-L] - RE: Positioning of popup menus

[karentellef via RBASE-L]

Oh I'm sorry, I totally misread your question!!!


Karen

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Stuart Hellman 
To: rbase-l 
Sent: Fri, Aug 31, 2018 3:38 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Positioning of popup menus



Karen & Albert, thanks for the input.  
 
What I was asking about was about the popup menu in the properties:
 

 
How do I specify the coordinates of this control?
 

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Hellman
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 12:00 PM
To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Positioning of popup menus

 
Greetings all,
 
When using a popup menu in RBase X, is there a way you can set the coordinates 
as to where the menu will display?  The list of choices is displaying right 
over the field I’m trying to populate. The popup menu shows up right in the 
middle of the form. I’ve tried an ‘ugly’ solution of moving the position of the 
form executing the popup off to the side, but there has got to be a better 
solution.
 
When doing a CHOOSE command, there is an option to set the TOP & LEFT 
coordinates. I was looking for a similar functionality for the popup menu.
 
 
Along the same line, is there a way to highlight an selection on the popup menu 
(again like the CHOOSE command)? This would be useful when setting default 
selections or when user goes back to edit a field, seeing what has been 
selected. 
 
 
Thank you in advance.
 
 
Stu Hellman
 
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[RBASE-L] - RE: Positioning of popup menus

[Stuart Hellman]

Karen & Albert, thanks for the input.

What I was asking about was about the popup menu in the properties:

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How do I specify the coordinates of this control?

From: rbase-l@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Stuart 
Hellman
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 12:00 PM
To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Positioning of popup menus

Greetings all,

When using a popup menu in RBase X, is there a way you can set the coordinates 
as to where the menu will display?  The list of choices is displaying right 
over the field I’m trying to populate. The popup menu shows up right in the 
middle of the form. I’ve tried an ‘ugly’ solution of moving the position of the 
form executing the popup off to the side, but there has got to be a better 
solution.

When doing a CHOOSE command, there is an option to set the TOP & LEFT 
coordinates. I was looking for a similar functionality for the popup menu.


Along the same line, is there a way to highlight an selection on the popup menu 
(again like the CHOOSE command)? This would be useful when setting default 
selections or when user goes back to edit a field, seeing what has been 
selected.


Thank you in advance.


Stu Hellman

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Re: [RBASE-L] - Positioning of popup menus

[karentellef via RBASE-L]

You can specify top and left:
CHOOSE vchoice  FROM #VALUES FOR Description FROM chart OPTION TOP 50 | LEFT 10




I haven't used this yet, but here's example code that I saved.  You can 
"pre-select" from a choose by either indicating the value itself or its numeric 
position:


CHOOSE vMenuPick  FROM #VALUES FOR MenuText  FROMAppMenuItems   OPTION  INITPOS 
2  (this is 0-baed) 

 CHOOSE vMenuPick  FROM #VALUES FOR MenuText  FROMAppMenuItems   OPTION  
INITVAL Customer




Karen



 

 

-Original Message-
From: Stuart Hellman 
To: rbase-l 
Sent: Fri, Aug 31, 2018 12:01 pm
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Positioning of popup menus



Greetings all,
 
When using a popup menu in RBase X, is there a way you can set the coordinates 
as to where the menu will display?  The list of choices is displaying right 
over the field I’m trying to populate. The popup menu shows up right in the 
middle of the form. I’ve tried an ‘ugly’ solution of moving the position of the 
form executing the popup off to the side, but there has got to be a better 
solution.
 
When doing a CHOOSE command, there is an option to set the TOP & LEFT 
coordinates. I was looking for a similar functionality for the popup menu.
 
 
Along the same line, is there a way to highlight an selection on the popup menu 
(again like the CHOOSE command)? This would be useful when setting default 
selections or when user goes back to edit a field, seeing what has been 
selected. 
 
 
Thank you in advance.
 
 
Stu Hellman


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Re: [RBASE-L] - Positioning of popup menus

[Albert Berry]

1. POPUP Menus. I assume you are using CHOOSE within an edit field. I have not 
done that for donkey’s years. Use a DB Combo Lookup instead, unless you are 
running DOS, of course.\. Combo Lookups “hang” from the field it belongs to. 
This is a snapshot of a drop down in the Contact form of my Parish Records 
database. In this case the Roman Catholic ID is 1. On an empty field it 
immediately looks like below. I always set WALKMENU on, so the user could press 
the first letter of the name and that would highlight. Down one for Greek 
Orthodox after presiding “G”, for example. In my case, I use the name for the 
popup order, but could just as easily use the ID.
 


Albert


> On Aug 31, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Stuart Hellman  wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
>  
> When using a popup menu in RBase X, is there a way you can set the 
> coordinates as to where the menu will display?  The list of choices is 
> displaying right over the field I’m trying to populate. The popup menu shows 
> up right in the middle of the form. I’ve tried an ‘ugly’ solution of moving 
> the position of the form executing the popup off to the side, but there has 
> got to be a better solution.
>  
> When doing a CHOOSE command, there is an option to set the TOP & LEFT 
> coordinates. I was looking for a similar functionality for the popup menu.
>  
>  
> Along the same line, is there a way to highlight an selection on the popup 
> menu (again like the CHOOSE command)? This would be useful when setting 
> default selections or when user goes back to edit a field, seeing what has 
> been selected. 
>  
>  
> Thank you in advance.
>  
>  
> Stu Hellman
> 
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[RBASE-L] - Positioning of popup menus

[Stuart Hellman]

Greetings all,

When using a popup menu in RBase X, is there a way you can set the coordinates 
as to where the menu will display?  The list of choices is displaying right 
over the field I'm trying to populate. The popup menu shows up right in the 
middle of the form. I've tried an 'ugly' solution of moving the position of the 
form executing the popup off to the side, but there has got to be a better 
solution.

When doing a CHOOSE command, there is an option to set the TOP & LEFT 
coordinates. I was looking for a similar functionality for the popup menu.


Along the same line, is there a way to highlight an selection on the popup menu 
(again like the CHOOSE command)? This would be useful when setting default 
selections or when user goes back to edit a field, seeing what has been 
selected.


Thank you in advance.


Stu Hellman

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