Question about the Quick SelectBox

[Ronald W. Olenic]

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Hi Robert,

This is going to be a tough problem, because the default # is set as a
special character in the dictionary.  

The best I could come up with was the following

screen x menu
 
temp t_one char * 10
 
field t_one selectbox from 1,21 to 3,23 value "#"
 
procedure input t_one
begin
  if fieldtext = "#"
  then
    info "AH HAH" now resp
end

When the user enters a #, a select box pops up in the data field
displaying the # character.  This forces the user to hit the enter key,
but it does leave a single character for both selectbox and subscreen
processing.  I was not able to turn off the border on the selectbox, not
quite sure why...

Let me know what your solution turns out to be.

Ron Olenic

The comments are my own opinions blah, blah, blah...

Robert Mills wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Have some fields where the user has to select between a few (between 2 and
> 6) options. As these options do not change, have used SelectBox where the
> available values are held in the dictionary. Now need to add 'selection
> boxes', where the available options are on disc, to some other fields. Idea
> was to write some menu screens that could be called from the fields input
> procedure if a certain value was entered. Standard 'popup screens' that most
> of us have used before and as documented in Cognos' SupportLink back in
> 1992.
> 
> Here is the problem:
> 
> SelectBox is activated by the hash and my 'popup screens' are activated by a
> dollar sign. User does not like having to use different keys to do the same
> thing. My fault as the popup screen looks just like the SelectBox output.
> 
> Solutions?
> 
> 1) Replace all SelectBox's with 'popup screens' - loads of programs to
> write.
> 2) Put a marker at the end of each field that has a lookup - loads of
> screens to change.
> 3) Get QUIZ to do the correct thing when a single character is entered --
> probably still have to change the screens but may be quicker.
> 4) A better option suggested by you??
> 
> Running:
> 
> PH819C4 on MPE/iX 5.5 pp7
> 
> Regards,
> Robert
> 
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